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Towards robotic heart surgery: introduction of autonomous procedures into an experimental surgical telemanipulator system
Author(s) -
Bauernschmitt R,
Schirmbeck E U,
Knoll A,
Mayer H,
Nagy I,
Wessel N,
Wildhirt S M,
Lange R
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the international journal of medical robotics and computer assisted surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1478-596X
pISSN - 1478-5951
DOI - 10.1002/rcs.30
Subject(s) - knot tying , computer science , immersion (mathematics) , robotic surgery , tying , simulation , stereoscopy , surgical robot , haptic technology , surgery , artificial intelligence , human–computer interaction , robot , medicine , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system
The introduction of telemanipulator systems into cardiac surgery enabled the heart surgeon to perform minimally invasive procedures with high precision and stereoscopic view. For further improvement and especially for inclusion of autonomous action sequences, implementation of force‐feedback is necessary. The aim of our study was to provide a robotic scenario giving the surgeon an impression very similar to open procedures (high immersion) and to enable autonomous surgical knot tying with delicate suture material. In this experimental set‐up the feasibility of autonomous surgical knot tying is demonstrated for the first time using stereoscopic view and force feedback. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.