Title :
Analysis of the surgeon´s grasp for telerobotic surgical manipulation
Author :
Tendick, Frank ; Stark, Lawrence
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Applications of robotics in surgery to date have taken advantage primarily of the robot´s accurate positioning capability. Robotics technology could also be applied to a telerobotic microsurgical system with the surgeon dynamically controlling the manipulator. A first step toward developing such a system is to understand the surgeon´s grasp and dexterous movement strategies. Principles of the analysis of grasp are described
Keywords :
biocontrol; biomechanics; position control; robots; surgery; telecontrol; dexterous movement strategies; dynamic control; manipulator; surgeon´s grasp; telerobotic surgical manipulation; Control systems; Fingers; Humans; Manipulators; Microsurgery; Muscles; Robot sensing systems; Surgery; Surges; Telerobotics;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96045
