Evaluation of long-term stability of monolithic 3D-printed robotic manipulator structures for minimally invasive surgery

PURPOSE: In the era of patient-centered medicine, clinical procedures, tools and instruments should be individually adapted to the patient. In this context, the presented 3D-printed Single-Port Overtube Manipulator System follows the aims to provide patient- and task-specific disposable manipulators for minimally invasive surgery. In a first experiment, the robustness of the monolithic flexure hinge structures in use as robotic manipulators will be investigated.

METHODS: Customizable monolithic manipulator structures designed by means of an automated design process and manufactured with selective laser sintering were investigated with regard to long-term stability in an endurance test. Therefore, a bare manipulator arm, an arm equipped with a standard instrument and finally loaded with an additional load of 0.5 N were evaluated by continuously following a trajectory within the workspace of the manipulator arms over a period of 90 min.

RESULTS: The unloaded manipulator as well as the manipulator arm equipped with a standard instrument showed a sufficient reproducibility (deviation of 1.5 mm and 2.5 mm, respectively, on average) with regard to an application as telemanipulated master-slave surgical robotic system. The 3D-printed manipulators showed no damage and maintained integrity after the experiment.

CONCLUSION: It has been shown that 3D-printed manipulators in principle are suitable for use as disposable surgical manipulator systems and offer a long-term stability over at least 90 min. The developed manipulator design shows great potential for the production of patient-, task- and user-specific robot systems. However, the manipulator geometries as well as the control strategies still show room for improvements.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery - 15(2020), 10 vom: 13. Okt., Seite 1693-1697

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Krieger, Yannick S [VerfasserIn]
Ostler, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Rzepka, Korbinian [VerfasserIn]
Meining, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Feussner, Hubertus [VerfasserIn]
Wilhelm, Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Lueth, Tim C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3D printing
Journal Article
Minimally invasive surgery
Patient-specific
Surgical robotics

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Date Completed 22.02.2021

Date Revised 22.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11548-020-02244-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313644373