Raven-II: An Open Platform for Surgical Robotics Research

The Raven-II is a platform for collaborative research on advances in surgical robotics. Seven universities have begun research using this platform. The Raven-II system has two 3-DOF spherical positioning mechanisms capable of attaching interchangeable four DOF instruments. The Raven-II software is b...

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Published inIEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 954 - 959
Main Authors Hannaford, Blake, White, Lee, Rosen, Jacob, Friedman, Diana W., King, Hawkeye, Roan, Phillip, Cheng, Lei, Glozman, Daniel, Ma, Ji, Kosari, Sina Nia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.04.2013
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Animals
Biomedical Research
Educational institutions
Equipment Design
Hardware
Humans
Instruments
Internet
Open source
research platform
Robotics - instrumentation
Robots
Software
Surgery
Surgery, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation
surgical robot
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ISSN0018-9294
1558-2531
1558-2531
DOI10.1109/TBME.2012.2228858

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Summary:The Raven-II is a platform for collaborative research on advances in surgical robotics. Seven universities have begun research using this platform. The Raven-II system has two 3-DOF spherical positioning mechanisms capable of attaching interchangeable four DOF instruments. The Raven-II software is based on open standards such as Linux and ROS to maximally facilitate software development. The mechanism is robust enough for repeated experiments and animal surgery experiments, but is not engineered to sufficient safety standards for human use. Mechanisms in place for interaction among the user community and dissemination of results include an electronic forum, an online software SVN repository, and meetings and workshops at major robotics conferences.
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ISSN:0018-9294
1558-2531
1558-2531
DOI:10.1109/TBME.2012.2228858