TY - GEN
T1 - Endoscope geometrical analysis and kinematic control
AU - Lipkin, Harvey
AU - Munnae, Jomkwun
AU - McMurray, Gary
AU - Zhou, Debao
AU - Daley, Wayne
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Endoscopes are used in medical practice to effect minimally invasive diagnostics and treatments through a natural or surgical orifice. The endoscope is a snakelike device with a two degree-of-freedom articulated tip that bends in any direction using internal cables actuated by knobs. In this paper we use a serial robot model of the tip to show that the tip motions are not decoupled with respect to the knob inputs nor do they have constant gains. Further in a geometrical analysis it is shown that the articulated tip always lies along a circle. A tip kinematic control strategy is developed based on small motions that is able to decouple the output motions from the input motions and provide a constant gain functions. This allows the surgeon to control the endoscope in an intuitive and efficient manner.
AB - Endoscopes are used in medical practice to effect minimally invasive diagnostics and treatments through a natural or surgical orifice. The endoscope is a snakelike device with a two degree-of-freedom articulated tip that bends in any direction using internal cables actuated by knobs. In this paper we use a serial robot model of the tip to show that the tip motions are not decoupled with respect to the knob inputs nor do they have constant gains. Further in a geometrical analysis it is shown that the articulated tip always lies along a circle. A tip kinematic control strategy is developed based on small motions that is able to decouple the output motions from the input motions and provide a constant gain functions. This allows the surgeon to control the endoscope in an intuitive and efficient manner.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2007-35384
DO - 10.1115/DETC2007-35384
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44949125555
SN - 0791848027
SN - 9780791848029
SN - 0791848094
SN - 9780791848098
T3 - 2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007
SP - 231
EP - 238
BT - 2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007
T2 - 31st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, presented at - 2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2007
Y2 - 4 September 2007 through 7 September 2007
ER -