A teleoperation system for micro-invasive brain surgery

This paper deals with controller design issues for a neurosurgical teleoperator system. The specific application of interest consists of remotely inserting a linear-stage rigid endoscope into the patient's brain for microinvasive neurosurgery interventions. This work aims at evaluating advantag...

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Main Authors: Manganelli Rudy, Chinello Francesco, Formaglio Alessandro, Prattichizzo Domenico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2010-12-01
Series:Paladyn: Journal of Behavioral Robotics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/s13230-011-0006-8
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Summary:This paper deals with controller design issues for a neurosurgical teleoperator system. The specific application of interest consists of remotely inserting a linear-stage rigid endoscope into the patient's brain for microinvasive neurosurgery interventions. This work aims at evaluating advantages and drawbacks of using a general-purpose control architecture versus a simpler task-oriented architecture, from a point of view of stability and transparency. Experiments revealed that in spite of its simplicity, the task-oriented design allows an improvement in the trade-off between performance, transparency and stability requirements.
ISSN:2081-4836