• DocumentCode
    3205375
  • Title

    Underactuated comanipulation for ultrasound breast exams

  • Author

    Marx, Anja ; Vitrani, Marie-Aude ; Muller, Sebastian ; Morel, Guillaume

  • Author_Institution
    GE Heathcare, Buc, France
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    3-7 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    4871
  • Lastpage
    4874
  • Abstract
    We investigate the possibility of providing adequate task assistance using under-actuated robots for human-robot tool co-manipulation. This novel approach optimizes robot-user synergy without taking into account any a priori knowledge of parameters depending on the user. Six different actuation modes were compared for a localization and scanning task. The best performance gain was achieved for 1 degree of under-actuation.
  • Keywords
    actuators; biomedical ultrasonics; manipulators; medical robotics; a priori parameter knowledge; actuation mode; human-robot tool co-manipulation; localization task; robot-user synergy; scanning task; task assistance; ultrasound breast exam; under-actuated robot; Breast; Image coding; Lesions; Probes; Robot kinematics; Surgery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Osaka
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610639
  • Filename
    6610639