TY - GEN
T1 - Design and experimental evaluation of an innovative SMA-based tendon-driven redundant endoscopic robotic surgical tool
AU - Giataganas, P.
AU - Evangeliou, N.
AU - Koveos, Y.
AU - Kelasidi, E.
AU - Tzes, A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The development and experimental evaluation of a prototype endoscopic robotic surgical tool is presented in this article. Smart memory alloys (SMA) are used as wires in a tendon-driven actuation mechanism. The 2N-DOF redundant manipulator is a cascade configuration of N-universal joint modules. The kinematics of the tool is analyzed and simple yet effective controllers relying on a constrained non-linear optimization problem are offered. The surgical tool's shape can be deformed according to a predefined profile leading to more versatile configurations than the existing designs. The efficiency of the overall system is investigated in experimental studies where its performance is evaluated by a customized 3D-video system.
AB - The development and experimental evaluation of a prototype endoscopic robotic surgical tool is presented in this article. Smart memory alloys (SMA) are used as wires in a tendon-driven actuation mechanism. The 2N-DOF redundant manipulator is a cascade configuration of N-universal joint modules. The kinematics of the tool is analyzed and simple yet effective controllers relying on a constrained non-linear optimization problem are offered. The surgical tool's shape can be deformed according to a predefined profile leading to more versatile configurations than the existing designs. The efficiency of the overall system is investigated in experimental studies where its performance is evaluated by a customized 3D-video system.
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U2 - 10.1109/MED.2011.5983225
DO - 10.1109/MED.2011.5983225
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052358258
SN - 9781457701252
T3 - 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011
SP - 1071
EP - 1075
BT - 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011
T2 - 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011
Y2 - 20 June 2011 through 23 June 2011
ER -