A Network Communication Protocols for Robotic-assisted Vascular Intervention Systems

Abstract

In recent years, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has become a very suitable field for robotic systems. Minimally invasive surgery which can be used for diagnosis and surgical treatment is more and more popular in the medical field. We have developed a remote vascular intervention robot system for medical applications which is integrated by several modules. During the remote operation of intervention therapy, we need to transmit CT images, robot instructions, force feedback data to make the surgery smoothly. So, we have developed an open, simple and extensible peer-to-peer communication protocol. Experiments result show that the network communication protocol can meet the requirements of real-time capability in the surgery.