Start Date
13-5-2021 1:30 PM
End Date
13-5-2021 1:50 PM
Document Type
Full Paper
Keywords
Medical Robotics, Cochlear Localization, Microrobotics, Cochlea
Description
Utilization of robotics in medical sciences has initiated many treatment opportunities that are otherwise impossible to be applied by conventional procedures. Thanks to rapid technological developments on the related field, new approaches as the utilization of microrobots in surgical operations have been started to be proposed for a variety of medical cases. One of the recent scenarios amongst them can be given as the idea of manipulating tetherless microrobot inside the cochlea in order to provide remedy for inner ear poblems. Considering related literature, current study tries to briefly introduce conceptual design of a macro-micro surgical robot manipulator that will carry an electromagnetic actuator at its end effector in order to generate motion of untethered microrobot located inside the cochlear region. Main focus of the study includes the determination of approximate coclea location in humans to be able to carry out structural synthesis of the manipulator with respect to the workspace constraints. In light of this, throughout the study anthropomorphic data of adult individuals were utilized along with the scanned model of human inner ear for calculations to reveal cochlea location.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/HWGI8972
On the Conceptual Design of a Macro Micro Robot Manipulator for Cochlear Microrobot Operations: A Case Study on Cochlea Localization
Utilization of robotics in medical sciences has initiated many treatment opportunities that are otherwise impossible to be applied by conventional procedures. Thanks to rapid technological developments on the related field, new approaches as the utilization of microrobots in surgical operations have been started to be proposed for a variety of medical cases. One of the recent scenarios amongst them can be given as the idea of manipulating tetherless microrobot inside the cochlea in order to provide remedy for inner ear poblems. Considering related literature, current study tries to briefly introduce conceptual design of a macro-micro surgical robot manipulator that will carry an electromagnetic actuator at its end effector in order to generate motion of untethered microrobot located inside the cochlear region. Main focus of the study includes the determination of approximate coclea location in humans to be able to carry out structural synthesis of the manipulator with respect to the workspace constraints. In light of this, throughout the study anthropomorphic data of adult individuals were utilized along with the scanned model of human inner ear for calculations to reveal cochlea location.