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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139233203321

Titolo

Medical robotics / / edited by Jocelyne Troccaz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE Ltd.

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley and Sons, 2012

ISBN

9781118562147

1118562143

9781118563335

1118563336

9781299277526

1299277527

9781118565940

1118565940

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 pages)

Collana

ISTE

Altri autori (Persone)

TroccazJocelyne

Disciplina

610.285/63

Soggetti

Robotics in medicine

Artificial intelligence - Medical applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Characteristics and state of the art -- Medical robotics in the service of the patient -- Sensors and pre-operative image registration -- Augmented reality -- Design of medical robots -- Vision-based control -- Interaction modeling and force control -- Telemanipulation -- Comanipulation -- Towards an intracorporeal robot.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, we present medical robotics, its evolution over the last 30 years in terms of architecture, design and control, and the main scientific and clinical contributions to the field.For more than two decades, robots have been part of hospitals and have progressively become a common tool for the clinician. Because this domain has now reached a certain level of maturity it seems important and useful to provide a state of the scientific, technological and clinical achievements and still open issues.This book describes the short history of the domain, its specificity and constraint