Design of a multi-DOF cable-driven mechanism of a miniature serial manipulator for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery

Tzemanaki, Antonia; Fracczak, Lukasz; Gillatt, David; Koupparis, Anthony; Melhuish, Chris; Persad, Raj; Rowe, Edward; Pipe, Anthony G.; Dogramadzi, Sanja

Abstract

While multi-fingered robotic hands have been developed for decades, none has been used for surgical operations. MicroAngelo is an anthropomorphic master-slave system for tele-operated robot-assisted surgery. As part of this system, this paper focuses on its slave instrument, a miniature three-digit hand. The design of the mechanism of such a manipulator poses a challenge due to the required miniaturization and the many active degrees of freedom. As the instrument has a human-centered design, its relation to the human hand is discussed. Two ways of routing its cable-driven mechanism are investigated and the method of deriving the input-output functions that drive the mechanism is presented.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
• Start Date: Jun 26, 2016
• End Date: Jun 29, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Apr 30, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jun 1, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 3, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 55-60
• Keywords: minimally invasive surgery, robot-assisted surgery, cable-driven mechanism, robotic instruments, anthropomorphic robot
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/924048
• Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7523598
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• Contract Date: Jun 1, 2016