Geometric Workspace Analysis and Transmission-Aware Dynamics of a Serial Spherical Tool for Microsurgery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24760v1
• Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 22:46:58 GMT
• Title: Geometric Workspace Analysis and Transmission-Aware Dynamics of a Serial Spherical Tool for Microsurgery
• Abstract summary: We present a kinematic and transmission-aware design framework for a serial spherical mechanism for microsurgery.<n>The first contribution is an analytical workspace formulation that provides geometric insight into reachable motion.<n>The second contribution is a dynamics-informed methodology for mechanisms driven by self-locking transmissions.
• Score: 5.720652358979051
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a kinematic and transmission-aware design framework for a serial spherical mechanism with an additional translational degree of freedom for microsurgery. The first contribution is an analytical workspace formulation that provides geometric insight into reachable motion and enables rapid selection of rotation axis orientations without numerical optimization. The second contribution is a dynamics-informed methodology for mechanisms driven by self-locking transmissions, supporting evaluation of torque requirements for a prescribed workspace geometry. The framework is accompanied by an open-source software package for friction identification and inverse dynamics analysis. Experiments on a purpose-built robotic tool for vitreoretinal surgery validate the predictive capability of the models and demonstrate their practical utility for engineering design.

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