Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
To further minimize invasiveness of surgical robot, the diameter of laparoscopic instruments should be smaller. However, it can lead to the degradation of the performance of the surgical robotic instruments/devices. Thus, we proposed modularization of surgical robotic instruments as a method to solve this problem. The robot modules are inserted from an incision created in the navel into the abdominal cavity then connected to shafts. The shafts are 3mm in diameter, used as an anchor and are held by a passive arm. Therefore, the initial workspace position can be easily determined and flexibly changed.
In this paper, we developed the surgical simulator in Sigmoid Colon for verification of the accessibility, accuracy and duration of the surgical operation with multiple robot models. As the result, it has become available to verify feasibility and to analyze easiness, accuracy and duration of operation.
