Now robot assisted laparoscopy has some problem to depend only on image of the surgical field. However, there is a research result which shows that it is possible to measure the operation force on commercialized instrument inside patient without sensors [1]. By using measured information, haptic technique can be implemented into surgical robot system. Therefore, this paper proposes the design o...

1) Master in Surgical. Voluntary Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Federal University of Parana. Otolaryngologist Hospital IPO. 2) Entitled Professor of Otolaryngology at Federal University of Parana State (UFPR). Doctor of IPO Hospital. Parana Institute of Otolaryngology Hospital. Entitled Professor of Otolaryngology Department of Federal University of Parana /UFPR. Otolaryngologis...

ARTEMIS, the Advanced Robotics and TElemanipulator System for Minimally Invasive Surgery, is designed as an integrated teleoperation and telepresence system for planning, training and performing different minimally invasive surgical procedures. The actual prototype was developed as an experimental device for exploring and testing the needed technologies and their capability and quality with res...

Operation rooms are significant cost drivers in hospitals. This is because of the expensive resources that are directly involved in surgery, and the indirect impact that operating room activities have on related activities and resources throughout the hospital. Surgery planning on different levels and time scales are thus central planning problems with strong interactions with other planning pr...

This paper briefly describes a surgical telerobot designed to provide enhanced dexterity to doctors performing minimally invasive surgical procedures. The rationale for a full 7-degree-of-freedom master-slave system is presented along with a discussion of the resulting computational architecture and recent clinical applications.

This paper introduces a new type of constraints, related to schedule synchronization, in the problem formulation of aircraft ̄eet assignment and routing problems and it proposes an optimal solution approach. This approach is based on Dantzig±Wolfe decomposition/column generation. The resulting master problem consists of ̄ight covering constraints, as in usual applications, and of schedule synch...