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Telesurgery
Via Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
High Altitude Platforms Mobile Robotic Telesurgery (HAPsMRT)
Abstract
The
primary objective of this project was to develop and validate
a High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) Mobile Robotic Telesurgery (MRT)
system that allows a remote surgeon to effectively operate on
an injured soldier regardless of the soldier’s location
or environment. These experiments validated mobile robotic telesurgery
through use of an unmanned aerial vehicle-based (UAV) communication
system and a prototype next generation surgical robot in the extreme
environment.
The
experiment took place on June 5-9 2006 in Simi Valley California.
The University of Washington surgical robot serving as the MRT
was deployed in a selected site of Simi Valley CA. Drs. Broderick
and Huffman (University of Cincinnati ) teleoperated the surgical
robot on inanimate objects simulating internal organs - a task
commonly used in training surgeons. The surgeon console was separated
about 100 m apart form the surgical robot. The local wireless
communication (video and manipulation commands) was transmitted
through PUMA (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - UAV) by AeroVironment
serving as the HAPs platform. Hardware compression / decompression
of the video signals of the surgical site was provided by hai560
- Haivision systems Inc.
People
& Organizations
University
of Washington
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Mitch
Lum
Nick Name: The COO
Famous: "You are sooo fired" |
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Diana
Worden
Famous Quote: "I am initializing" |
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Hawkeye
King
Nick Name "The wizard of bits and bites"
Famous Quote: "It is just 3 lines of code" |
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Gina
Donlin
Nick Name: The USB lady
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Blake
Hannaford
Nick Name: The Boss
Famous Quote: "Good job you guys ..." |
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Jacob
Rosen
Nick Name: The Other Boss
Famous Quote: "!?"
Contributors
(not present in the field)
Mika Sinanan (Dep. of Surgery)
Denny Trimble
Jesse Dosher
Rainer Leuschke
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan
Timothy Kowalewski
Smita De
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University of Cincinnati
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Timothy
Broderick
Nick Name: Tim - Surgeon 1
Famous Quote: "From My Standpoint.." |
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Lynn
Huffman
Nick Name: Chip - Surgeon 2
Famous Quote: "!?" |
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Charles
Doarn
Nick Name: Chuck
Famous Quote: "During my time in NASA ...." |
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Brett
Harnett
Nick Name: IT
Famous Quote: "Go Team" |
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HaiVision System Inc.
Aerovironment Inc. |
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Media
Panoramic
View of the Experimental Site
High
Resolution - High Quality (7.1 Mb)
High
Resolution - Medium Quality (1.6 Mb)
Photo
Gallery (230 Images - High Resolution)
IEEE
Spectrum - Doc at a Distance (PDF 8.5 MB)
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war
zones, and
disaster-stricken areas
Jacon Rosen, Blake Hannaford
IEEE Spectrum, Oct., 2006
King
5 News - Surgery Long Distance (Broadcast June 9th,
2006) - 6.7 Mb
Imagine undergoing surgery and your surgeon is thousands of miles
away. Now imagine that surgeon saving the life of a soldier on
the battlefield. Science or fiction? Glenn Farley reports that
reality is not far away.
Seattle PI (Published in the Front Page - June 12,
2006)
Tomorrow's battlefield surgeon may not be flesh and blood
Scientists test robot to help injured soldiers
Cincinnati
Surgeon Leads First Test of Mobile Robotic Surgery
University of Cincinnati Press Release
New Telesurgery Could Help Soldiers and Astronauts
Discovery Channel
Selected
Photos
UW
Surgical Robot
UW
Surgical Robot Deployed in the Field
The
Portable Surgical Console
The First Knot
Publications
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Note: Most of the BRL
publications are available on-line in a PDF format.
You may use the publication's reference number as a link to the
individual manuscript.
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