Industrial Robot: Volume 30 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Robotics for telesurgery: second generation Berkeley/UCSF laparoscopic telesurgical workstation and looking towards the future applications
M. Cenk Çavuşoğlu, Winthrop Williams, Frank Tendick, S. Shankar SastryRobotic telesurgery is a promising application of robotics to medicine, aiming to enhance the dexterity and sensation of regular and minimally invasive surgery through using…
PathFinder image guided robot for neurosurgery
Patrick A. Finlay, Paul MorganThis paper discusses the benefits that arise from the use of a robot arm for guiding neurosurgical operations. The design and operation of the PathFinder, safety issues and the…
Medical robots in Japan
Yoshihiro KusudaThe Japanese robotic industry has been very silent in medical applications. However, changes in this can now be observed. Above all Hitachi, an electric/machinery giant, is trying…
Shaping the future BendWizard: a tool for off‐line programming of robotic tending systems
Paolo ConcaSetting up a robot to make metal cabinets or cases for desktop computers can be a complex operation. For instance, one expert might be required to carry out a feasibility study…
User‐adaptive control of a magnetorheological prosthetic knee
Hugh Herr, Ari WilkenfeldA magnetorheological knee prosthesis is presented that automatically adapts knee damping to the gait of the amputee using only local sensing of knee force, torque, and position…
The Shadow robot mimics human actions
Paul Tuffield, Hugo EliasThe development and current specification for the Shadow Hand and Arm project are described. The Shadow robot has human like movements and uses air muscles to replicate the action…
The Acrobot® system for total knee replacement
Matjaz Jakopec, Simon J. Harris, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Paula Gomes, Brian L. DaviesA “hands‐on” robotic system for total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is presented. Computed tomography (CT) based software is used to accurately plan the procedure…
A prototype robot for polishing and milling large objects
Cezary Zieliński, Krzysztof Mianowski, Kazimierz Nazarczuk, Wojciech SzynkiewiczThe paper describes a prototype robot which due to its serial‐parallel structure exhibits, high stiffness and has a large work envelope. These features make this robot suitable…
The TERESA project : from space research to ground tele‐echography
Pierre Vieyres, Gérard Poisson, Fabien Courrèges, Olivier Mérigeaux, Philippe ArbeilleUltrasound examinations represent one of the major diagnostic modalities of future healthcare. They are currently used to support medical space research but require a high skilled…
Design and control issues for intrinsically safe medical robots
Philippe Poignet, Etienne Dombre, Olivier Merigeaux, François Pierrot, Gilles DucheminThis paper focusses on two active intrinsically safe medical robots – Hippocrate and DERMAROB – designed by the LIRMM laboratory and manufactured by SINTERS. For both of them, we…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou