Design, fabrication and testing a semi-automatic sewing device for personalized stent graft manufacturing
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
For the treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA), a personalised stent graft is used to ensure it fits tightly to the patients vessel geometry. A personalised stent graft is usually handmade which requires thousands of stitches and can take weeks or even months to complete. This delay may expose the patient to the risk of aneurysm rupture. This paper presents a robotic sewing device that can enhance the stent graft sewing speed by providing automated needle manipulation. It simplifies the sewing process and has the potential to achieve fully automated stent graft manufacturing via a vision-guided system. The device features a sewing probe that can switch a double pointed semi-circular needle between two movable jaws. This forgoes the need for manual needle handling including grasping, driving rotation, releasing and re-grasping, which requires a high level of manual dexterity and attention. This paper presents the design of the device, its mechanical synthesis and experimental validation. The focus of the paper is on the linkage parameter optimisation and needle locking mechanism design. The proposed device has been fabricated using 3D rapid prototyping techniques, and its performance has been compared with the conventional manual sewing method. The experimental results show that the device can achieve a 30% reduction of the completion time for a stitching task while achieving better consistency and quality of the stitches.
Date Issued
2019-04
Date Acceptance
2019-01-14
Citation
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2019, 24 (2), pp.517-526
ISSN
1083-4435
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
517
End Page
526
Journal / Book Title
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Volume
24
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/L020688/1
EP/P012779/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Automation & Control Systems
Engineering, Manufacturing
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering
Electromechanical systems
medical robotics
surgical instruments
SYSTEM
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-01-24