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This wiki is home to users of the Research Kit for the da Vinci Surgical System.

The da Vinci Research Kit

The da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) is a collection of first-generation da Vinci components that can be used to assemble a research platform for exploring telerobotics in medicine. The idea behind this initiative is to provide the core hardware to a network of researchers worldwide, by repurposing retired clinical systems. This hardware is provided in combination with dedicated electronics to create a system that enables researchers to access to any level of the control system of the robot as well as the data streams within it.

Background

The da Vinci Research Kit research platform was developed through a collaboration between academic institutions, Johns Hopkins University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Intuitive Surgical Inc. in 2012. The introduction of the dVRK allowed research centers to share a common hardware platform without restricted access to the underlying back-and forward control system. This has led to a significant boost to the development of research in surgical robotics during the last decade and generated new opportunities for collaboration and to connect a surgical robot to other technologies. Today, the dVRK consortium includes mostly universities and academic centers within hospitals, and some companies.

Components

The Kit contains the following components:

  • Two da Vinci Master Tool Manipulators (MTMs)
  • Two da Vinci Patient Side Manipulators (PSMs)
  • A stereo viewer
  • A foot pedal tray
  • Manipulator Interface Boards (dMIBs)
  • Basic accessory kit

See the system in action on YouTube (credit: the JHU team).

MTM
PSM
Stereo Viewer
Foot Pedal Tray

Documentation


The User Group

University/Group PI Group Wiki Page
North America
Johns Hopkins University Russell Taylor
Peter Kazanzides
JHU Group Page
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Greg Fischer WPI Group Page
Stanford University Allison Okamura CHARM Group Page
Cyril Ryan Zakka Group Page
University of British Columbia Tim Salcudean UBC Group Page
Vanderbilt University ARMA - Nabil Simaan ARMA Group Page
MAPLE - Jie Ying Wu MAPLE Group Page
University of California, Berkeley Pieter Abbeel
Ken Goldberg
Berkeley Group Page
Carnegie Mellon University Howie Choset CMU Group Page
Sick Kids Children's Hospital James Drake Sick Kids Group Page
Clemson University Venkat Krovi Clemson University
University of Western Ontario & CSTAR Rajni Patel CSTAR Group Page
Wayne State University Abhilash Pandya Wayne State University
Case Western Reserve University Cenk Cavusoglu
Zonghe Chua
Case Western Reserve University
University of California San Diego Michael Yip University of California San Diego
Professor Tania Morimoto
Cleveland Clinic Rob Colbrunn Cleveland Clinic
Purdue University Juan Wachs
Denny Yu
Purdue University Group Page
University of Alberta Mahdi Tavakoli University of Alberta
University of Texas, Austin ARTS Lab - Farshid Alambeigi University of Texas at Austin
HERO Lab - Ann Majewicz Fey
National Institutes of Health Bradford Wood
Sheng Xu
NIH Group Page
University of Illinois at Chicago Liaohai Leo Chen University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Utah Professor Alan Kuntz University of Utah
New York University S. Farokh Atashzar New York University
University of Maryland Axel Krieger Maryland University
Wake Forest University Philip Brown Wake Forest University
Europe
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Arianna Menciassi SSSA Group Page
Óbuda University Tamás Haidegger Óbuda University
University of Verona Paolo Fiorini University of Verona
Imperial College Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena Imperial College
University College London Danail Stoyanov University College London
University of Naples Federico II Bruno Siciliano
Fanny Ficuciello
University of Naples Federico II
Politecnico di Milano NEARLab - Elena De Momi Polimi Group Page
University of Leeds Pietro Valdastri University of Leeds
University of Innsbruck Yeongmi Kim
Matthias Harders]
University of Innsbruck
University of Reutlingen Oliver Burgert
Lars Schmidt
University of Reutlingen
University of Twente Sarthak Misra University of Twente
University of Torino MITIC Lab - Alberto Arezzo University of Torino
Max Planck Institute Guido Caccianiga Max Planck Institute
Asia
Seoul National University Sungwan Kim Seoul National University
Ben Gurion University of the Negev Ilana Nisky Ben Gurion University of the Negev
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yunhui Liu
Philip Chiu
Samuel Au
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Samuel Au
Yonsei University Jongsoo Lee
Professor Jongeun Choi
Yonsei University
Surgnova Jindi Zhang Surgnova

Publications

Publications associated with the use of dVRK currently online are more than 290. And this includes international conferences or journals, as well as publications related to workshops or symposiums, and open-access articles stored in arXiv. The published works range between many fields like automation, skill assessment and gesture recognition, hardware implementation and integration, system simulation and modelling, imaging and vision.

Here are listed some of the most interesting and up to date reviews where you can find most of the dVRK related articles:
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2015

  • Á. Takács et al., “Joint platforms and community efforts in surgical robotics research,” MACRo 2015, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015.


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