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Summary and licensing information
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This code is for RAVEN II surgical simulator. It is based on the open-source RAVEN II control software, developed by the University of Washington Biorobotics lab at: https://github.com/uw-biorobotics/raven2/tree/indigo. It enables running RAVEN control software with no robotic hardware attached.

A Python script (Real_Packet_Generator_Surgeon.py) mimicks the network packets sent from the surgeon console based on a previously collected data from the trajectory of a basic surgical task. A 3D visualization tool for ROS (rviz package) is used for 3D animation of the robotic motions. 
For more information, please see: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~alemzad1/papers/MedicalCPS_2015.pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07135v1

Copyright (C) 2015 University of Illinois Board of Trustees, DEPEND Research Group
Creators: Homa Alemzadeh, Daniel Chen, and Abishek Krishnamoorthy (rviz) 

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