Petros Giataganas, N. Evangeliou, Y. Koveos, Eleni Kelasidi, A. Tzes
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Abstract
The development and experimental evaluation of a prototype endoscopic robotic surgical tool is presented in this article. Smart memory alloys (SMA) are used as wires in a tendon-driven actuation mechanism. The 2N-DOF redundant manipulator is a cascade configuration of N-universal joint modules. The kinematics of the tool is analyzed and simple yet effective controllers relying on a constrained non-linear optimization problem are offered. The surgical tool's shape can be deformed according to a predefined profile leading to more versatile configurations than the existing designs. The efficiency of the overall system is investigated in experimental studies where its performance is evaluated by a customized 3D-video system.