A Robotized Handheld Smart Tool for Orthopedic Surgery

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader A Robotized Handheld Smart Tool for Orthopedic Surgery Via The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery Abstract Handheld surgical robots offer functionalities, such as active guidance, tremor suppression and force reflection, for surgeons to enhance their skill in manipulating surgical tools during medical intervention. In orthopedic surgery, the robot additionally has to offer sufficient rigidity and power for bone machining. The size and weight of the mechanical design, together with the control behavior associated with involuntary hand motion, navigation and reflected force to the human, all influence the overall performance of an orthopedic handheld robot. The paper proposes a miniature and compact design for an embedded robot, which is a similar weight as a handpiece. Then, a shared controller is proposed to address the coupling among involuntary and voluntary hand motions, robot navigation, tool feedback forces and force artifacts from actuation. The handheld robot is able to stabilize the drill positioning by removing involuntary tremors as well as reduce force artifacts from motor a ctuation in experiments involving pedicle tunneling on a porcine spine. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.