Robotics for surgery

Author

Dario, P. ; Menciassi, A.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, CRIM-ARTS Lab., Pisa, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1813

Abstract

This paper discusses the main characteristics and applications of Robotics In surgery. Surgical robotic devices are classified as: (1) large, high-precision robots (image-guided, autonomous or teleoperated); (2) hand-held smart medical tools; (3) miniature endoscopic robots. Special attention is devoted to robots for minimally invasive surgery which are particularly promising and technically challenging as they require integrated design, on-board sensing and actuation, power supply and some degree of autonomy.

Keywords

medical robotics; reviews; surgery; actuation; autonomous robots; autonomy; hand-held smart medical tools; image-guided robots; integrated design; large high-precision robots; on-board sensing; power supply; surgical robotic devices; teleoperated robots; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Intelligent robots; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical robotics; Microsurgery; Minimally invasive surgery; Orthopedic surgery; Robot sensing systems; Surges;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053038

Filename

1053038