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A MODULAR MECHATRONIC SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC BONE DRILLING
- YEH-LIANG HSU,
- SHIH-TSENG LEE, and
- HAO-WEI LIN
Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications25 Aug 2001
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Drilling tools currently used in surgery depends only on the surgeon's manual skills to stop the penetration when completing a hole. This paper presents a modular mechatronic system for automatic bone drilling in surgery. The development of a “modular system” that is compatible with motor-driven drills that are commercially available, rather than developing a new surgical drill, is emphasized. A fuzzy controller analyzes the electric current consumed by the DC motor of the drill. When break-through is detected, the power will be cut and stops drilling in order to prevent excessive protrusion of the drill bit. In extensive drilling tests on real human skulls, there were no unexpected failure, and the overshoots of all tests were well less than 2mm.

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