TY - GEN
T1 - Design improvements on a carotid blood flow measurement system
AU - Carbone, G.
AU - Nakadate, R.
AU - Solis, J.
AU - Ceccarelli, M.
AU - Takanishi, A.
AU - Minagawa, E.
AU - Sugawara, M.
AU - Niki, K.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - This paper investigates mechanical design improvements for a carotid blood flow measurement robotic system. This robotic system is composed of a serial robot with a wrist having a 6-DOF parallel mechanism. Main focus is to enhance the workspace performance of the wrist. Thus, a workspace analysis is carried out by referring to a built prototype that is named as WTA-1R (Wascda- Tokyo women's medical Aloka blood flow measurement system no.l Refined). Then, mechanical design enhancements are proposed.
AB - This paper investigates mechanical design improvements for a carotid blood flow measurement robotic system. This robotic system is composed of a serial robot with a wrist having a 6-DOF parallel mechanism. Main focus is to enhance the workspace performance of the wrist. Thus, a workspace analysis is carried out by referring to a built prototype that is named as WTA-1R (Wascda- Tokyo women's medical Aloka blood flow measurement system no.l Refined). Then, mechanical design enhancements are proposed.
KW - Parallel manipulators
KW - Robotics
KW - Workspace analysis
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900121913
SN - 9783642019463
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics
SP - 283
EP - 290
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics
T2 - 2009 5th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics
Y2 - 6 May 2009 through 8 May 2009
ER -