A vision system for a surgical instrument-passing robot

To help control the high cost of health care delivery, a robotic system is proposed for use in passing surgical instruments in an operating room. The system consists of a vision system, a robotic arm, a speech recognition and synthesis unit, and a microcomputer. A complete vision system has been dev...

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Main Author: Chan, Kenneth Ling-Man
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25083