SURGICAL
A FLEXIBLE DISTAL TIP WITH TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR ENHANCED DEXTERITY IN ENDOSCOPIC ROBOT SURGERY
Jan Peirs, Hendrik Van Brussel, Dominiek Reynaerts, Gudrun De Gersem
- Year
- 2015
- Citations
- 41
Abstract
A flexible distal tip with two degrees of freedom has been developed for endoscopic robot surgery. The flexible tip consists of a superelastic NiTi tube which can be bent from-90º to +90º in 2 directions by means of 4 cables. The improvement over previous devices is the combination of two degrees of freedom with a small diameter of only 5 mm. An additional advantage is the tool channel which enables the use of different instruments with this single device.
Keywords
Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)RobotSurgeryMedicineArtificial intelligenceComputer visionComputer sciencePhysics
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