Abstract:
Computer aided surgery and computer
assisted robotic surgery are having more and
more impact on medical care. This paper
presents the architecture and work flow of an
intelligent surgical robotic system that we are
developing. Our robotic surgical system is
designed to augment and enhance the hand-eye
coordination capability of the surgeon during
operation in order to achieve the desired
outcome and reduce invasiveness. By
incorporating advances in surgical simulation
and robot-assisted surgery, patient specific
surgical plans can be derived with robot
manipulation included. This highly autonomous
robot is also provided high level of intelligence
by cognitive engine, a key component of the
system, for effective collaboration with the
surgical team. A design of human-robot
collaborative control is proposed in this paper as well.
