Research Progress of Venipuncture Robot

doi:10.3901/JME.2021.03.001

Abstract

Abstract: With the development of medical technology, venipuncture has become an indispensable means for human health assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. By far almost all of those actions are performed manually by medical personnel, which stimulates the demand for automation, also brings great social and economic prospect to automatic venipuncture robots. In order to relive the mental and physical burden of medical personnel as well as to promote the development of medical automation and wise information technology, venipuncture robots have become a worldwide research hotspot, and many researches have been released by research institutions. This research briefly summarizes the development status of venipuncture robots, analyzes the key technologies referred in venous sensing, autonomous decision making, robot structural design, control methods and so on. This paper further summarizes the existing problems and challenges, and finally looks forward to the development trends of venipuncture robots.

Key words: venipuncture, medical robot, vein recognition, perceptual feedback, autonomous decision-making

CLC Number:

TP249

HE Tianbao, GUO Chuangqiang, REN Hao, JIANG Li. Research Progress of Venipuncture Robot[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2021, 57(3): 1-10.

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