MICCAI '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Toward robotized beating heart TECABG: assessment of the heart dynamics using high-speed vision
MICCAI'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part II
Cardiolock2: parallel singularities for the design of an active heart stabilizer
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
A miniature mobile robot for navigation and positioning on the beating heart
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
ICIRA'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications - Volume Part II
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Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is still today a technically difficult procedure. In fact, the mechanical stabilizers used to locally suppress the heart excursion have been demonstrated to exhibit significant residual motion. We therefore propose a novel active stabilizer which is able to compensate for this residual motion. The interaction between the heart and a mechanical stabilizer is first assessed in vivo on an animal model. Then, the principle of active stabilization, based on the high speed vision-based control of a compliant mechanism, is presented. In vivo experimental results are given using a prototype which structure is compatible with a minimally invasive approach.