A robot assisted tele-neurosurgery on sea

Telesurgery is an interdisciplinary field of teleoperated robotics and robot assisted minimally invasive surgery, and has great promising future. This paper describes the design and experiment of a tele-neurosurgery system on a hospital ship. A five DOFs robot was designed to perform the surgical procedure. Synchronous communication satellite links were built to perform data transmission, and virtual surgery technology was being used to reduce the affect of time delay in the telesurgery. Experiments show the location error of robot at different sea conditions. It also proves the practicality and reliability of the system.