Beaverton, OR — Ethernet motion controllers by Pro-Dex, OMS were selected by a bio-medical research facility in Canada for a prostate cancer surgical device (PCSD) that provides absolute positioning for a surgical cancer procedure.
\nThe success of PCSD will result in a more efficient surgical procedure for prostate cancer patients by means of flawless accuracy and instrument reliability. Only the most precise motion control technology could be considered. With this uncompromising criterion, within two months of the project’s launch, the Canadian facility selected and integrated the right motion control solution. The solution was to maneuver the four absolute positioning motors to align the scalpel for precise positioning combined with the ability to remember the scalpel’s last location exactly. Precision, support, simplicity of integration, ease-of-use and reliability were critical. In the end, the research group selected Pro-Dex, OMS to provide the necessary components, which includes a combination of 4-axis absolute encoder synchro-serial interface (SSI) interface with the MAXNET4000 ethernet motion controller.
\nOne of the reasons for using Pro-Dex, OMS controllers was that the instrument requires feedback via a 9 and 12 bit resolution absolute encoder SSI, a standard motion encoder data format. The Pro-Dex, OMS controller accepts this signal format as a standard option, which makes it easy to configure in the controller’s program.
\nIt helps to imagine the actual surgical robot itself: three or four mechanical arms holding the scalpel and surgical instruments. The movement of these robotic arms is controlled solely by the surgeon, who sits at an attached computer console and manipulates the arms with two precise joysticks.
\nThe robotic technology gives laparoscopic surgeons more precise control and magnified vision. Because the surgeon is moving the instruments indirectly through the robot, any slight tremors of the surgeon’s hands are eliminated. In addition, an automobile stick-shift-type control on the robotic console allows the surgeon to reposition his or her hands to a more ergonomic position during surgery, reducing operating-room fatigue. The screen that displays the details of the robotic surgery through a small video camera inserted into the patient’s abdomen shows a three-dimensional image that can be magnified up to 12 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beaverton, OR — Ethernet motion controllers by Pro-Dex, OMS were selected by a bio-medical research facility in Canada for a prostate cancer surgical device (PCSD) that provides absolute positioning for a surgical cancer procedure. The success of PCSD will result in a more efficient surgical procedure for prostate cancer patients by means of flawless accuracy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}