A Dexterous System for Laryngeal Surgery Multi-Backbone Bending Snake-like Slaves for Teleoperated Dexterous Surgical Tool Manipulation
A Dexterous System for Laryngeal Surgery Multi-Backbone Bending Snake-like Slaves for Teleoperated Dexterous Surgical Tool Manipulation
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2004
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N. Simaan;Hopkins University-ERC-CISST;P. Flint
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N. Simaan;Hopkins University-ERC-CISST;P. Flint
This paper presents a design overview of a novel high DoF (Degrees-of-Freedom) system being developed for minimally invasive surgery of the throat. The system is designed to allow remote operation of 2-3 tools with high tip dexterity to enable suturing and soft-tissue manipulation while using the patient's mouth as the only entry port. The slave is a 34 DoF unit equipped with three snake-like distal dexterity units for surgical tool manipulation. Each of these units is a multi-backbone snake- like mechanism equipped with a detachable milli parallel manipulator allowing interchangeable tools to be used. The paper presents the outline of the kinematic analysis of the snake-like units and proposes one possible actuation redundancy resolution to allow further downsize scalability while reducing the risk of buckling of the primary backbone of the snake-like units. Finally, the paper presents a first early experiment with a prototype of the snake-like unit. This paper reports our work to develop a high-dexterity robotic system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) of the throat - an organ unusually challenging because of its shape, length, and complexity. Throat surgery is characterized by insertion of endoscopes and multiple long tools through a narrow tube (the laryngoscope) inserted into the patient's mouth. Current manual instrumentation is awkward, hard to manipulate precisely, and lacks sufficient dexterity to permit common surgical subtasks such as suturing vocal fold tissue. Our goal is a three-armed teleoperated robot with high distal dexterity capable of suturing and similar tissue manipulation tasks through the laryngoscope. Our approach emphasizes Distal Dexterity Units (DDU) with a novel design mounted on the end of precisely manipulated, thin robot arms. The DDU design is easily scalable to small sizes, simple to manufacture,