Design of a Novel Balloon Catheter Delivery Mechanism for the Vascular Interventional Robotic System

Abstract

Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventional Robots can effectively improve the safety and accuracy of surgical operations, reducing the cumulative radiation damage received by doctors. In the previous research of our lab, a Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventional Surgery Robot System was developed, which can achieve accurate delivery of catheters and guidewires. Nevertheless, this system lacks some surgical operations such as balloon catheter delivery. This paper presents a novel delivery device for the balloon catheter and its performance is evaluated by a series of experiments. On the basis of the adhesion hypothesis, this device uses the conveyor to drive the balloon catheter forward and backward. Finally, the performance evaluation experiments prove that the mechanism meets the operational requirements of the balloon catheter during operation.