Robocath: A patient-mounted parallel robot to position and orient surgical catheters

Amirhossein Salimi, Amin Ramezanifar, Javad Mohammadpour, K. Grigoriadis, N. V. Tsekos

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Abstract

Hosting the cardiac catheters and the necessity for their precise and collision-free navigation in transapical beating-heart interventions require the development of dexterous and reliable robotic platforms. These mechanisms should not only be capable of tracking the desired trajectories with high level of accuracy but also have to have the potential to cope with strict medical constraints such as environment compatibility, patient safety and compactness. In this paper, we propose a robotic platform that takes into account the above mentioned requirements. Benefiting from a state-of-the-art parallel structure, this four degreeof-freedom MRI-compatible patient-mounted and cable-driven manipulator (that we name ROBOCATH) seeks to steer cardiac catheters under beating heart condition, while suitably addressing the deficiencies that currently used manipulators vastly suffer from. In addition to the detailed description of the robot design and its specifications, kinematic model along with some experimental results on the prototype are provided.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASME 2012 5th Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Joint with the JSME 2012 11th Motion and Vibration Conference, DSCC 2012-MOVIC 2012
Pages471-480
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventASME 2012 5th Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Joint with the JSME 2012 11th Motion and Vibration Conference, DSCC 2012-MOVIC 2012 - Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
Duration: Oct 17 2012Oct 19 2012

Publication series

NameASME 2012 5th Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Joint with the JSME 2012 11th Motion and Vibration Conference, DSCC 2012-MOVIC 2012
Volume3

Other

OtherASME 2012 5th Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Joint with the JSME 2012 11th Motion and Vibration Conference, DSCC 2012-MOVIC 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityFort Lauderdale, FL
Period10/17/1210/19/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering

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