Deformation-as-Control for A Biologically Inspired Steerable Needle

Autor: Christopher Burrows, Fangde Liu, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: ROBIO
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739568
Popis: STING, a biologically inspired steerable needle robot, has the potential to improve diagnostic and drug delivery therapies in neurosurgery. Real-time path planning for steerable needles remains challenging due to complex kinematic constraints and tissue deformation. Inspired by deformation theory, this paper introduces a “deformation-as-control” method for transforming non-linear path planning problems into linear formulations. Both theoretical analysis and simulations in two-and three-dimensional space confirm that the method is fast, robust, smooth and accurate. As a result, it can be used for real-time control of steerable needles to overcome tissue deformation, as well as being easily adaptable to other continuum style or nonholonomic robots.
Databáze: OpenAIRE