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Toward an optimal performance index for neurosurgical robot's design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2009

Alessandro Gasparetto  and
Vanni Zanotto
Alessandro Gasparetto
Affiliation:
DIEGM, Università degli Studi di Udine, via delle Scienze 208, Udine 33100, Italy
Vanni Zanotto*
Affiliation:
DIEGM, Università degli Studi di Udine, via delle Scienze 208, Udine 33100, Italy
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: vanni.zanotto@uniud.it
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Summary

In the past years a large number of new surgical devices have been developed to improve the operation outcomes and reduce the patient's trauma. Nevertheless, the dexterity and accuracy required in positioning the surgical tools are often unreachable if the surgeons are not assisted by a suitable system. Since a medical robot works in an operating room, close to the patient and the medical staff, it has to satisfy much stricter requirements with respect to an industrial one. From a kinematic point of view, the robot must reach any target position in the patient's body, being as less invasive as possible for the surgeon's workspace. In order to meet such requirements, the right robot structure has to be chosen by means of the definition of suitable kinematic performance indices.

In this paper some task-based indices based on the robot workspace and stiffness are presented and discussed. The indices will be used in a multiobjective optimization problem to evaluate best robot kinematic structure for a given neurosurgical task.

Keywords

Medical roboticsRobot designRobot performancesNeurosurgeryKinematicsTask-based index
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Article
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Robotica , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Surgical Robotics: System Development, Application Study and Performance Analysis , March 2010 , pp. 279 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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