Design and evaluation of a variable stiffness manual operating platform for laparoendoscopic single site surgery (LESS).

Journal: The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
PMID: 28218495

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Most of the existing robotic platforms for LESS have workspace and load capacity weaknesses, because of the limitation of one single incision. We have developed a LESS manual operating platform of which the stiffness of the insertion tube is controllable.

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  • Jinhua Li
    Key Lab for Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  • Xuejie Li
    3 School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University , Tianjin, China .
  • Jianchen Wang
    Key Lab for Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  • Yuan Xing
    Key Lab for Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  • Shuxin Wang
    a Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education , Tianjin University , Tianjin , China.
  • Xiangyun Ren
    Key Lab for Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.

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