Development of master handle for robotic laparoscopy using cable-conduit

Abstract

In robotic surgery, a surgeon checks only a surgical site of patient in the progress of surgery by vision and sound information. In order to solve this limited information, the haptic function is necessary. For haptic realization, it requires much more information through various sensors. However, because of the special environment inside human body, it is not easy to apply sensors such as a force sensor. The low inertia master device for laparoscope operation with cable-conduit was developed in previous research to give haptic function. This suggested a possibility of developing a master device by using the cable-conduit. However, since each axis of rotations does not match with human wrist joint, it is very inconvenient to use. This paper suggests a new mechanism design structure to solve these problems of previous work by new form of master device. And it is experimented and analyzed that a cable conduit connected control box can follow well according to a trajectory of one axis's angle.