ArticleMedical & biological engineering & computing2020
Design of a multi-arm concentric-tube robot system for transnasal surgery.
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- Robotic Handle Prototypes for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery: Pre-clinical Randomised Controlled Trial of Performance and Ergonomics.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2022Trial
- Design and Validation of a Compact Concentric-Tube Robot for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2025Article
- Handheld robotic device for endoscopic neurosurgery: system integration and pre-clinical evaluation.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- Using robotics to move a neurosurgeon's hands to the tip of their endoscope.Science robotics · 2023Article
- Coupling Analysis of Compound Continuum Robots for Surgery: Another Line of Thought.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Flexible Needle Steering with Tethered and Untethered Actuation: Current States, Targeting Errors, Challenges and Opportunities.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2023Review
- A Millimeter-Scale Soft Robot for Tissue Biopsy Procedures.Advanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023Article
- Modeling of and Experimenting with Concentric Tube Robots: Considering Clearance, Friction and Torsion.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Tip estimation approach for concentric tube robots using 2D ultrasound images and kinematic model.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2021Article
- Design and Experimental Study of Space Continuous Robots Applied to Space Non-Cooperative Target Capture.Micromachines · 2021Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Concentric tube robot (CTR) has gradually attracted the attention of researchers on the basis of its small size and curved shape control ability. However, most of current experimental prototypes of CTR are single-arm structure, which can only carry out simple operation such as drug delivery or monitoring. In this paper, design and analysis of a three-arm CTR system is proposed. It has a four-DOF vision arm and two six-DOF manipulator arms, which equipped with special end effectors to achieve different surgical operations. Finally, a mean motion accuracy of 0.33 mm has been obtained quantitatively through teleoperation experiments. Moreover, tissue excision experiment in skull model is carried out to prove the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed CTR system in nasopharyngeal carcinoma surgery. Graphical Abstract Platform of the proposed Multi-Arm Concentric Tube Robot system. (a) Configuration of the end-effectors with the CTR system. (b) The setup of the tissue removal experiment in a skull model.
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