A continuum manipulator for open-source surgical robotics research and shared development
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Author(s)
Clark, Angus B
Mathivannan, Visakan
Rojas, Nicolas
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Many have explored the application of continuum robot manipulators for minimally invasive surgery, and have successfully demonstrated the advantages their flexible design provides—with some solutions having reached commercialisation and clinical practice. However, the usual high complexity and closed-nature of such designs has traditionally restricted the shared development of continuum robots across the research area, thus impacting further progress and the solution of open challenges. In order to close this gap, this paper introduces ENDO, an open-source 3-segment continuum robot manipulator with control and actuation mechanism, whose focus is on simplicity, affordability, and accessibility. This robotic system is fabricated from low cost off-the-shelf components and rapid prototyping methods, and its information for implementation (and that of future iterations), including CAD files and source code, is available to the public on the https://github.com/OpenSourceMedicalRobots’s repository on GitHub, with the control library also available directly from Arduino. Herein, we present details of the robot design and control, validate functionality by experimentally evaluating its workspace, and discuss possible paths for future development.
Date Issued
2021-02-01
Date Acceptance
2020-11-01
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2021, 3 (1), pp.277-280
ISSN
2576-3202
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
277
End Page
280
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Volume
3
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9273083
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-11-30