A medical robotic assistant for minimally invasive surgery

Author

Munoz, V.F. ; Vara-Thorbeck, C. ; DeGabriel, J.G. ; Lozano, J.F. ; Sanchez-Badajoz, E. ; Garcia-Cerezo, A. ; Toscano, Rosario ; Jimenez-Garrido, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Autom., Malaga Univ., Spain

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2901

Abstract

Presents a robotic assistant for helping surgeons in minimally invasive surgery. This prototype does not require any modification of a standard operation theatre (furniture or surgery tools) for its installation and its putting into operation. Due to its modular design, the robotic assistant is defined as a multi-purpose tool that has been successfully used in laparoscopic surgery, cystoscopy diagnostic and transurethral resection. The system has been tested by using both patient simulators and animals for experimentation purposes

Keywords

medical robotics; surgery; telerobotics; cystoscopy diagnostics; laparoscopic surgery; medical robotic assistant; minimally invasive surgery; modular design; multi-purpose tool; patient simulators; transurethral resection; Abdomen; Biomedical optical imaging; Cameras; Endoscopes; Medical robotics; Minimally invasive surgery; Optical feedback; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Surges;

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.2000.846468

Filename

846468