Multifunctional Articulating Surgical Robot for NOTES

Design and Analysis of Multifunctional Robot for Notes

Robot Construction for Surgical Applications

This paper presents a robot design for use in robotic-assisted surgery. The requirements of a medical robot point to the advantage of a parallel robot structure for this task. Based on laparoscopic surgery, specifications for workspace, velocity, force and accuracy of the robot were determined. Following a large number of kinematic and dynamic simulations, an RSPR parallel robot was designed an...

The Role of Non-linearity for Evolved Multifunctional Robot Behavior

In this paper the role of non-linear control structures for the development of multifunctional robot behavior in a self-organized way is discussed. This discussion is based on experiments where combinations of two behavioral tasks are incrementally evolved. The evolutionary experiments develop recurrent neural networks of general type in a systematically way. The resulting networks are investig...

Human-robot skills transfer interfaces for a flexible surgical robot

In minimally invasive surgery, tools go through narrow openings and manipulate soft organs to perform surgical tasks. There are limitations in current robot-assisted surgical systems due to the rigidity of robot tools. The aim of the STIFF-FLOP European project is to develop a soft robotic arm to perform surgical tasks. The flexibility of the robot allows the surgeon to move within organs to re...

Notes on Some Surgical Cases

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