DocumentCode
2020640
Title
The IntuitiveTM telesurgery system: overview and application
Author
Guthart, Gary S. ; Salisbury, J. Kenneth, Jr.
Author_Institution
Intuitive Surgical Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
618
Abstract
The paper briefly describes daVinciTM, a surgical telerobot designed to provide enhanced dexterity to doctors performing minimally invasive surgical procedures. The rationale for a full 7-degree-of-freedom master-slave system is presented along with a discussion of the resulting computational architecture and recent clinical applications
Keywords
medical robotics; surgery; telerobotics; computational architecture; daVinci surgical telerobot; enhanced dexterity; full 7-degree-of-freedom master-slave system; minimally invasive surgical procedures; telesurgery system; Cameras; Control systems; Endoscopes; Laparoscopes; Minimally invasive surgery; Motion control; Orthopedic surgery; Pain; Surges; Teleoperators;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5886-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844121
Filename
844121
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