期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 18-28出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2017.2750692
关键词
Medical robotics; magnetic resonance imaging; intelligent robot
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资金
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health [R01EB015870]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING [R01EB015870] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Deep intracranial tumor removal can be achieved if the neurosurgical robot has sufficient flexibility and stability. Toward achieving this goal, we have developed a spring-based continuum robot, namely a minimally invasive neurosurgical intracranial robot (MINIR-II) with novel tendon routing and tunable stiffness for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment. The robot consists of a pair of springs in parallel, i.e., an inner interconnected spring that promotes flexibility with decoupled segment motion and an outer spring that maintains its smooth curved shape during its interaction with the tissue. We propose a shape memory alloy (SMA) spring backbone that provides local stiffness control and a tendon routing configuration that enables independent segment locking. In this paper, we also present a detailed local stiffness analysis of the SMA backbone and model the relationship between the resistive force at the robot tip and the tension in the tendon. We also demonstrate through experiments, the validity of our local stiffness model of the SMA backbone and the correlation between the tendon tension and the resistive force. We also performed MRI compatibility studies of the three-segment MINIR-II robot by attaching it to a robotic platform that consists of SMA spring actuators with integrated water cooling modules.
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