Improving the positioning accuracy of a neurosurgical robot system

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 527-533

  Liu, Junchuan ^a   Zhang, Yuru ^a   Li, Zhen ^b,c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA TONGFANG CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

Neurosurgical robot; Positioning accuracy; Robot calibration

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROSURGERY; POSITION CONTROL;

DENAVIT-HARTENBERG KINEMATIC MODEL; NEUROSURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM; POSITION ACCURACY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36249013151     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.905694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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