A Fail-Safe Dual Channel Robot Control for Surgery Applications

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Laible;Thomas Bürger;Günter Pritschow

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SAFECOMP '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents the architecture of a fail-safe control for robotic surgery that uses two independent processing units to calculate the position values and compare the results before passing them to the drives. The presented system also includes several other safety functions like a redundant measuring system realized as a tripod within the hexapod kinematics, position lag monitoring or watchdogs. The safety requirements for the system are derived from the regulations of the medical device directive (MDD) and from a risk analysis of the control system.