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The company’s core technology is in advanced master-slave robotic manipulation systems whose applied forces are controlled as precisely as their motions resulting in true dexterity enhancement. This is the key distinction between the human arm and today’s industrial robots, whose motions are controlled very accurately but the applied forces are controlled poorly at best. MicroDexterity Systems believes it has developed a superior system to those developed by today’s competitors due to their lack of force control in their early surgical robots. In addition, the high servo rate of the control systems results in high fidelity force feedback to the master interface that the operator holds in his hand.
One key to MDS’ high fidelity force control is proprietary, innovative mechanical architectures that minimize internal friction and inertia forces. These architectures greatly reduce internal “noise” forces that mask the ability to control applied forces. Other keys to success include advanced force sensing technology that utilize computer chip-type elements integrated into structural components, and state-of-the-art control hardware and software being developed in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratory RMSEL (a world leading robotics R&D facility).
Dexterity enhancement provides better motion than can be provided by the operator alone. Realistic tactile feedback restores or amplifies the sensing that may be lost with ordinary robotic systems. |
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