Following Surgical Trajectories with Concentric Tube Robots via Nearest-Neighbor Graphs

Autor: Ron Alterovitz, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Sherdil Niyaz, Alan Kuntz, Oren Salzman
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics ISBN: 9783030339494
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Popis: Concentric tube robots, or CTRs, are tentacle-like robots composed of precurved telescoping tubes (Fig. 1a) and are controlled by rotating and translating each individual tube [6]. Their dexterity and small diameter enable minimally-invasive surgery in constrained areas, such as accessing the pituitary gland via the sinuses. Unfortunately, their unintuitive kinematics make manually guiding the tip while also avoiding obstacles with the entire tentacle-like shape extremely difficult [19]. This motivates a need for new user interfaces and planning algorithms.
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