Safety enhanced surgical robot for flexible ureteroscopy based on force feedback.

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

BACKGROUND: Although some robotic systems have been developed to improve conventional flexible ureteroscopy (FURS), a widely used intervention in urology, these robots rarely have a comprehensive force feedback function which is important for master-slave controlled surgical robots.

Authors

  • Xiongpeng Shu
    Institute of Forming Technology & Equipment, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
  • Peng Hua
    Institute of Forming Technology & Equipment, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
  • Shuang Wang
    Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China. S1507038@st.nuc.edu.cn.
  • Ling Zhang
  • Le Xie
    Research Institute of Med-X, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.