Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
Catheter ablation is a method to treat arrhythmias which is an abnormal contractile movement of the myocardial. While this treatment is minimally invasive, it may lead to complications such as vascular injury, cardiac puncture and cardiac tamponade. The cause of this problem is considered as the difficulty for the surgeon to intuitively operate the catheter tip. To improve accuracy of catheter ablation treatment, we developed a master-slave system that considers the structure of a human wrist for surgeons to operate a catheter remotely. A master and a slave robot made it possible to operate the catheter in 2 DoF which is the inserting and the twisting operation. Two experiments were carried out, which is to determine the insertion displacement of the slave robot and to obtain the correspondent relationship between the master and the slave robot.
