TY - JOUR
T1 - A perspective on medical robotics
AU - Taylor, Russell H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 26, 2005; revised February 7, 2006. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement EEC9731478 and other NSF Grants, in part by other U.S. Government agencies and private foundations, including the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Science and Technology and the Whitaker Foundation, in part by industry, including IBM, Siemens Corporation, General Electric, Northern Digital, Intuitive Surgical Systems, and Integrated Surgical Systems, and in part by Johns Hopkins University. The author is with the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA (e-mail: rht@jhu.edu).
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - This paper provides an overview of medical robotics, from the perspective of a researcher who has been actively involved in the field for 17 years. Like all robot systems, medical robots fundamentally couple information to physical action to significantly enhance humans' ability to perform important tasks - in this case surgical interventions, rehabilitation, or simply helping handicapped people in daily living tasks. Research areas include modeling and analysis of anatomy and task environments, interface technology between the "data world" and the physical world, and study of how complex systems are put together. This paper will discuss these research areas and illustrate their interrelationship with application examples. Although the main focus will be on robotic systems for surgery, it will also discuss the relationship of these research areas to rehabilitation and assistance robots. Finally, it will include some thoughts on the factors driving the acceptance of medical robotics and of how research can be most effectively organized.
AB - This paper provides an overview of medical robotics, from the perspective of a researcher who has been actively involved in the field for 17 years. Like all robot systems, medical robots fundamentally couple information to physical action to significantly enhance humans' ability to perform important tasks - in this case surgical interventions, rehabilitation, or simply helping handicapped people in daily living tasks. Research areas include modeling and analysis of anatomy and task environments, interface technology between the "data world" and the physical world, and study of how complex systems are put together. This paper will discuss these research areas and illustrate their interrelationship with application examples. Although the main focus will be on robotic systems for surgery, it will also discuss the relationship of these research areas to rehabilitation and assistance robots. Finally, it will include some thoughts on the factors driving the acceptance of medical robotics and of how research can be most effectively organized.
KW - Computer-integrated surgery
KW - Human-machine cooperative systems
KW - Medical robotics
KW - Rehabilitation robotics
KW - Robotic assistive systems
KW - Surgical assistants
KW - Telerobotics
KW - Telesurgery
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2006.880669
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2006.880669
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33947310423
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 94
SP - 1652
EP - 1664
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE
IS - 9
ER -