Design and implementation of a control architecture for robot-assisted orthopaedic surgery

Background Recent research in orthopaedic surgery indicates that computer-assisted robotic systems improve the precision and accuracy of the surgery, which in turn leads to better long-term outcomes. Increasing demand for minimally invasive bone-cutting operations has been encouraging surgical robot developments in orthopaedics. An orthopaedic robotic system and an intelligent control architecture that will be used in bone-cutting operations were developed.