Temperature Control in Robotic Bone Drilling Process

The bone drilling process is characterized with a set of input and output parameters. The first ones define the conditions of the process execution and the second ones determine the outcome. The input parameters feed rate and drill speed have the most importance for the outcome, namely thermal and mechanical damages of the bone tissue. In manual drilling the surgeon controls the input parameters regarding his experience. The control of these parameters and the achievement of their optimal values can be successfully realized only under robotized execution. This work presents basic characteristics of orthopedic drilling robot ODRO as well as a new drill speed control algorithm.