The software design for a medical robot for urological applications

Author

Fei, B.W. ; Kwoh, C.K. ; Ng, W.S.

Author_Institution

Robotics Res. Center, Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Safety and reliability are the crucial requirements of the software for a medical robot which is a safety-critical system. Based on the verification and validation of a commercial prototype medical robot, the surgeon programmable electrical TURP, a software design method for medical robot was put forward. It was proved that it can help improve the quality of the software. The concepts of software levels, surgeon robot interfaces and error processing were also considered. These methods are being adopted in the development of a new robot, which could provide the common platform for interstitial laser coagulation and radiation seed implantation of the prostate

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; medical computing; medical robotics; safety-critical software; surgery; GUI; commercial prototype; control software; error processing; interstitial laser coagulation; medical robot; prostate; radiation seed implantation; safety-critical system; software design; surgeon programmable electrical TURP; surgeon robot interfaces; top-down design; transurethral resection; urological applications; Application software; Coagulation; Control systems; Design methodology; Medical robotics; Software design; Software prototyping; Software quality; Software safety; Surges;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804051

Filename

804051