NDLI: A real-time system for tele-surgery

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Butner, S.E. Ghodoussi, M.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Butner, S.E.)
Abstract	Describes a real-time system supporting a tele-surgery application based on the Zeus/sup TM/ system. The application involves performing minimally invasive surgical procedures remotely - i.e. without the surgeon being present in the same room with the patient. Because there is human life at stake, the underlying real-time system must be robust, fail-safe and resilient to communications problems. This paper focuses primarily on the approach taken in communicating between the surgeon-side and patient-side subsystems. In particular, techniques for dealing with the challenges of real-time communications are discussed, e.g. bit errors, packet errors and synchronization. In addition to the control actions and feedback data, several serial data streams are multiplexed, transmitted between one side and the other, demultiplexed, and delivered by the real-time system. These streams have a fundamentally different character from the control actions and feedback values used with the robots. Both types of real-time streams are sent over the same communications link.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Distributed Process
Starting Page	236
Ending Page	243
File Size	811242
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769510779
DOI	10.1109/ICDSC.2001.918953
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-04-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Real time systems Surges Robots Delay Humans Minimally invasive surgery Application software Communication system control Microsurgery Arteries
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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