Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
Recently, single-port surgery (SPS) has been performed frequently in the field of laparoscopic surgery because its invasiveness is low compared with the conventional laparoscopic surgery. However, surgeons need considerable skill to perform SPS. In our previous study, a haptic surgical robot for SPS was developed, which is composed of 2 forceps robots and 1 laparoscope robot. In this paper, to expand a view field of the laparoscope robot, a tip bendable laparoscope manipulator was developed. In addition, operation method of zoom-in and zoom-out of the laparoscopic image was improved so that the laparoscope robot could be operated more intuitively. Experimental works were carried out to verify an effectiveness of the developed tip bendable laparoscope manipulator and the improvement of operation method of the laparoscope robot.
