Design and control issues for intrinsically safe medical robots
Philippe Poignet
(LIRMM, Montpellier Cedex, France)
Etienne Dombre
(LIRMM, Montpellier Cedex, France)
Olivier Merigeaux
(SINTERS S.A., Parc Technologique Basso Cambo, Toulouse Cedex, France)
François Pierrot
(LIRMM, Montpellier Cedex, France)
Gilles Duchemin
(LIRMM, Montpellier Cedex and SINTERS S.A., Parc Technologique Basso Cambo, Toulouse Cedex, France)
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Abstract
This paper focusses on two active intrinsically safe medical robots – Hippocrate and DERMAROB – designed by the LIRMM laboratory and manufactured by SINTERS. For both of them, we discuss design and control issues.
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Citation
Poignet, P., Dombre, E., Merigeaux, O., Pierrot, F. and Duchemin, G. (2003), "Design and control issues for intrinsically safe medical robots", Industrial Robot, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 83-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910310457751
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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