This project improves the design and usage of a portable teleoperated robotic ultrasound system. The teleoperated device enables the positioning of an ultrasound probe on the torso of human patients for diagnostic lung ultrasounds. The device allows a sonographer or other qualified medical technician to remotely use joystick controls to position and orient an ultrasound probe in 6 degrees of freedom. Our design of the teleoperated device improved the series of mechanisms used and added safety features including an encasing and a conforming contact on the bottom of the device where the device contacts the patient’s torso while a lung ultrasound scan is performed. The device is intended to be used for ultrasound diagnostic scans for any patients who cannot undergo scans in a hospital setting. Our implemented design provides an equivalent level of comfort and safety as a manual ultrasound scan performed by a sonographer.

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Creator

• Valsamis, Jonathan
• Gao, Tianyang
• Gobran, Michael

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 63576
• E-project-042522-225826

Keyword

• teleoperation
• telemedicine
• portable robot
• ultrasound
• sonography
• medical robotics

Advisor

• Zheng, Yihao
• Zhang, Ziming

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright