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

2007; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/robot.2007.363108

2577-087X

Jumpei Arata, Hiroki Takahashi, Phongsaen Pitakwatchara, Shin’ichi Warisawa, Kazuo Tanoue, Kozo Konishi, Satoshi Ieiri, Shuji Shimizu, Naoki Nakashima, Koji Okamura, Yuichi Fujino, Yukihiro Ueda, Pornarong Chotiwan, Mamoru Mitsuishi, Makoto Hashizume,

Advanced Data Storage Technologies

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.