@inproceedings{95f3089fb362416da0fe15b3ad721478,
title = "Collaborative Robots for Surgical Applications",
abstract = "This works presents the impact that collaborative robotic technologies can offer for surgical applications, with emphasis on the tracking and execution steps. In particular, a new workflow for spine and trauma surgery is presented, in which a miniature mechanical tracker is attached directly to the patients{\textquoteright} bony structure (Patent pending). The tracker is capable of following the patients{\textquoteright} motion with high precision, measuring the deviation with respect to the trajectories defined in the surgical plan and providing a feedback channel to a robot which assists the surgeon holding the surgical tools in place. The clinical application of vertebral fusion has been chosen as testing scenario and preliminary results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of this concept.",
author = "{\'A}lvaro Bertelsen and Davide Scorza and Camilo Cort{\'e}s and Jon O{\~n}ativia and {\'A}lvaro Escudero and Emilio S{\'a}nchez and Jorge Presa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2018.; 3rd Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2017 ; Conference date: 22-11-2017 Through 24-11-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2\_43",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319708355",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "524--535",
editor = "Anibal Ollero and Alberto Sanfeliu and Luis Montano and Nuno Lau and Carlos Cardeira",
booktitle = "ROBOT 2017",
address = "Germany",
}