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Engineering Approaches to Mechanical and Robotic Design for Minimally Invasive Surgeries (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

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This book is based on the thesis of Ali Faraz. The references collection is well and this book is friendly reading. A 6 joints (DoF) laparoscopic device(Ch2,3); a suture device (Ch4); hepatic sensation (Ch5) are developed, and it is focus on the arm and joint mechanics.
Most of the new books, concerning of laparoscopic/robotic devices, will not cited the old references. Inside the abdominal cavity, the limitation of space is quite different with industry robotic arm. The authors introduced some basic problems, and step by step why the model was chosen, the calculation process.

I'd specially like page 23: about the PRR (SCARA) model.
page 50: concerning about dexterous measurement.
page 59: capturing and oriented the needle cost 40-60% time.
page 75: sensation near joint/page 135: sampling frequency is around/below 2kHz.
page 138: spherical joints got 3 DoF.
page 114, p164: 6 DoF Jacobian matrix is complex, the authors cited Waldron method for calculation.

Though it is published 10 years ago, it is still a very interesting book. And some of the theory had evoluted, continuous used in single-port, NOTEs, and robotic surgery.