Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 32, Issue 19, 2861(2024)

Fiber-optic navigation of approach attitude for transnasal flexible surgical robot

Tianliang LI1,*... Yongwen ZHU1, Jiajun LI1, Jun WANG2, Wei MENG3 and Yuegang TAN1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan430070, China
  • 2Department of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan430060, China
  • 3School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan40070, China
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    To address the challenges of limited dexterity in traditional transnasal surgery and inadequate intraoperative guidance, a flexible transnasal surgical robot with fiber-optic navigation is developed. The design features a flexible manipulator with spherical hinges and pin-slot configuration for enhanced dexterity and resistance to torsional disturbances. The robot's forward and inverse kinematics are modeled using geometric analysis and the D-H parameter method. Embedded with two fiber-optic sensors at 90° intervals in each manipulator, a data-driven posture calibration using binocular vision and extreme learning avoids errors from traditional offline calibration and mitigates error accumulation in differential geometry posture estimation. This enhances high-precision perception of the robot's shape and position. Experiments demonstrate the manipulator's bending angle can reach 105°, with a load capacity of 0.9 N at 80°. Using fiber-optic navigation, maximum position prediction errors are 0.920 mm in free environments and 1.635 mm with obstacles, confirming the robot's effectiveness and feasibility.

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    Tianliang LI, Yongwen ZHU, Jiajun LI, Jun WANG, Wei MENG, Yuegang TAN. Fiber-optic navigation of approach attitude for transnasal flexible surgical robot[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2024, 32(19): 2861

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    Received: Jun. 5, 2024

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    Published Online: Jan. 9, 2025

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    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20243219.2861

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