TY - GEN
T1 - A 3-legged parallel robot for long bone fracture alignment
AU - Abedinnasab, Mohammad H.
AU - Farahmand, Farzam
AU - Gallardo-Alvarado, Jaime
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 ASME.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The reduction of long bone fractures is traditionally an invasive procedure with drawbacks of intense force, soft tissue damage, and, both, rotational and longitudinal malalignment. To combat these drawbacks, we applied a novel, wide open, threelegged, 6-DOF parallel robot, to the current surgical procedure. This platform will balance the accuracy, payload, and workspace for the surgeon, resulting in more efficient, successful surgeries. The experimental tests on a phantom reveal that the mechanism is well capable of applying the desired reduction steps against the large muscular payloads with high accuracy.
AB - The reduction of long bone fractures is traditionally an invasive procedure with drawbacks of intense force, soft tissue damage, and, both, rotational and longitudinal malalignment. To combat these drawbacks, we applied a novel, wide open, threelegged, 6-DOF parallel robot, to the current surgical procedure. This platform will balance the accuracy, payload, and workspace for the surgeon, resulting in more efficient, successful surgeries. The experimental tests on a phantom reveal that the mechanism is well capable of applying the desired reduction steps against the large muscular payloads with high accuracy.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2017-67262
DO - 10.1115/DETC2017-67262
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 19th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 14th International Conference on Design Education; 10th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2017
Y2 - 6 August 2017 through 9 August 2017
ER -