Active handheld instrument for error compensation in microsurgery

Cameron N. Riviere; Pradeep K. Khosla

doi:10.1117/12.298048

1 January 1998 Active handheld instrument for error compensation in microsurgery

Cameron N. Riviere, Pradeep K. Khosla

Proceedings Volume 3202, Microrobotics and Microsystem Fabrication; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298048
Event: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Abstract

Physiological hand tremor and other manual positioning errors limit precision in microsurgical procedures. Our research has involved development of adaptive algorithms and neural network methods for real-time compensation of such errors. This paper presents a novel design for an active hand-held microsurgical instrument to implement these algorithms, particularly during vitreoretinal microsurgery. The basic vitreoretinal instrument consists of a handle fitted with a narrow freedom inertial sensing to determine the 3D position of the instrument tip. The intraocular shaft is attached to the instrument handle via a miniature parallel manipulator with three degrees of freedom, controlled by three piezoelectric elements. The manipulator actuates the intraocular shaft in pitch, yaw, and axial extension, allowing the system to perform active compensation of errors in the position of the tip of the intraocular shaft. The paper includes the formulation of the inverse kinematics of the instrument in a manner suitable for on-line computation. A discussion of practical design considerations and the methods and results of preliminary experiments are also presented.

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Cameron N. Riviere and Pradeep K. Khosla "Active handheld instrument for error compensation in microsurgery", Proc. SPIE 3202, Microrobotics and Microsystem Fabrication, (1 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298048

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