2016 Summer Project Week/MRI Manipulator
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Key Investigators
- Scheherazade Kraß
Project Description
Objective
- Integrating/Using OpenIGTLink for the communications of robotic devices:
- The MRI Manipulator, a 5 DoF robot for performing transrectal prostate biopsies.
- The Kuka LBR robot and MITGATE, a MeVislab based software.
Approach, Plan
- The system is based on MeVisLab, the robot is controlled with a pneumatic motor via PLC controller, the movement commands are transferred through an Emulator. The goal is making this system working with OpenIGTLink.
Progress
- to be started in the project week.