A remote surgery experiment between Japan and Thailand over internet using a low latency CODEC system

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作者
Arata, Jumpei [1 ]
Takahashi, Hiroki [2 ]
Pitakwatchara, Phongsaen [2 ]
Warisawa, Shin'ichi [2 ]
Tanoue, Kazuo [3 ]
Konishi, Kozo [3 ]
Ieiri, Satoshi [3 ]
Shimizu, Shuji [3 ]
Nakashima, Naoki [3 ]
Okamura, Koji [3 ]
Fujino, Yuichi [4 ]
Ueda, Yukihiro [5 ]
Chotiwan, Pornarong [6 ]
Mitsuishi, Mamoru [2 ]
Hashizume, Makoto [3 ]
机构
[1] Nagoya Inst Technol, Showa Ku, Gokiso Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4668555, Japan
[2] Univ Tokyo, Tokyo 1138656, Japan
[3] Kyushu Univ, Fukuoka 8128582, Japan
[4] NTT Corp, Chiyoda Ku, Tokyo 1008116, Japan
[5] Nippon Telegraph & Tel Publ Commun, Tokyo 1008019, Japan
[6] Chulalongkorn Univ, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-10 | 2007年
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10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363108
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TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
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0812 ;
摘要
Remote surgery is one of the most desired applications in the context of recent advanced medical technologies. For a future expansion of remote surgery, it is important to use conventional network infrastructures such as Internet. However, using such conventional network infrastructures, we are confronting time-delay problems of data transmission. In this paper, a remote surgery experiment between Japan and Thailand using a Research and Development Internet is presented. In the experiment, the image and audio information was transmitted by a newly developed low latency CODEC system to shorten the time-delay. By introducing the low latency CODEC system, the time-delay was shortened compared with the past remote surgery experiments despite the longer distance. We also conducted several network measurements such as a comparison between TCP/IP and UDP/IP about the control signal transmission.
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