background: historically, operating room (or) has always been considered as a stand-alone trusted platform for surgical education and training.however, concerns about financial constraints, quality control, and patient safety have urged the surgical educators to develop more cost-effective, surgical educational platforms that can be employed outside the or. furthermore, trained surgeons need to...

OBJECTIVE To establish a telerobotic surgical service between a teaching hospital and a rural hospital for provision of telerobotic surgery and assistance to aid rural surgeons in providing a variety of advanced laparoscopic surgery to their community patients. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA The above service was established between St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton and North Bay General Hospital 40...

PURPOSE To elucidate the merits of robotic application for vitreoretinal maneuver in comparison to conventional manual performance using an in-vitro eye model constructed for the present study. METHODS Capability to accurately approach the target on the fundus, to stabilize the manipulator tip just above the fundus, and to perceive the contact of the manipulator tip with the fundus were teste...

A telerobotic test-bed has recently been built between KAIST(Korea) and Saga University(Japan). This paper presents its first research work on investigating the interactive learning performance of human teleoperators. For this purpose, the telerobotic test-bed was re-shaped to a telerobotic golf system. Eleven players were participated, and their interactive performance with the telerobot was c...

Concepts for a long-duration habitat at Earth-Moon L1 or L2 have been advanced for a number of purposes. We propose here that such a facility could also have an important role for low-latency telerobotic control of lunar surface equipment, both for lunar science and development. With distances of about 60,000 km from the lunar surface, such sites offer light-time limited two-way control latenci...

Employing disturbance observers is an effective way of enhancing the stability and performance of the control systems subject to disturbances. Disturbance observers have been extensively used for control of mechatronic systems since their introduction in the 1980s. This thesis studies the design of nonlinear disturbance observers for robotic manipulators and their applications in the control of...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. The development and history of robotics 4. Applications in medicine 5. Applications in surgery 5.1. Application in surgical subspecialities 5.1.1. Urology 5.1.2. Orthopedics 5.1.3. Gastrointestinal surgery 5.1.4. Cardi c surgery 5.1.5. Other 6. Role of robotics in gynecology and its subspecialities 7. Types of robotic assistance in gynecologic surgery 7.1. Laparos...

The technological developments in distributed systems have led to new telerobotic applications, such as virtual laboratories and remote maintenance of complex equipment, built on top of Internet and distributed computing system infrastructures. These applications must satisfy both the general requirements of distributed computing, e.g. location transparency and interoperability, and the domain-...

Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair shortens the length of hospital stay and achieves low rates of hernia recurrence. The inherent difficulties of performing advanced laparoscopy operations, however, have limited the adoption of this technique by many surgeons. We hypothesized that the virtual operative field and hand-like instruments of a telerobotic surgical system could overcome these limitat...