A survey on actuators-driven surgical robots

HM Le, TN Do, SJ Phee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2016 - Elsevier
Robot-assisted surgeries have been integrated and leading to a paradigm shift in surgical
fields. With the emergence of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), especially Natural Orifice …

Advanced intelligent systems for surgical robotics

MT Thai, PT Phan, TT Hoang, S Wong… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Surgical robots have had clinical use since the mid‐1990s. Robot‐assisted surgeries offer
many benefits over the conventional approach including lower risk of infection and blood …

Advanced soft robotic system for in situ 3D bioprinting and endoscopic surgery

MT Thai, PT Phan, HA Tran, CC Nguyen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology offers great potential in the
treatment of tissue and organ damage. Conventional approaches generally rely on a large …

Development of a soft robotic catheter for vascular intervention surgery

CC Nguyen, MT Thai, TT Hoang, J Davies… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robotics-based teleoperated robotic catheter systems hold great promise for improving
the safety and efficacy of vascular interventional surgery (VIS). Despite advances, current …

Real-time smooth trajectory generation for nonholonomic mobile robots using Bézier curves

KR Simba, N Uchiyama, S Sano - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on generating smooth trajectories for a wheeled nonholonomic mobile
robot using piecewise Bézier curves with properties ideally suited for this purpose. The …

Stretchable, twisted conductive microtubules for wearable computing, robotics, electronics, and healthcare

TN Do, Y Visell - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Stretchable and flexible multifunctional electronic components, including sensors and
actuators, have received increasing attention in robotics, electronics, wearable, and …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication, nonlinear modeling, and control of woven hydraulic artificial muscles for wearable applications

PT Phan, D Welch, J Spiggle, MT Thai… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robotics, soft artificial muscles and smart textiles are on the rise to compete with their
rigid counterparts in the fields of wearable technologies and medical applications owing …

Advanced user interfaces for teleoperated surgical robotic systems

CC Nguyen, S Wong, MT Thai… - Advanced Sensor …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, advances in modern technology have altered the practice of surgery from
open to minimally invasive surgery (MIS) aided by robots. Teleoperated surgical robotic …

Post-treatments for multifunctional property enhancement of carbon nanotube fibers from the floating catalyst method

TQ Tran, Z Fan, A Mikhalchan, P Liu… - ACS applied materials …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We investigated the effects of the synthesis conditions and condensation processes on the
chemical compositions and multifunctional performance of the directly spun carbon …

Soft microtubule muscle-driven 3-axis skin-stretch haptic devices

MT Thai, TT Hoang, PT Phan, NH Lovell, TN Do - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the real world, people heavily rely on haptic or touch to manipulate objects. In emerging
systems such as assistive devices, remote surgery, self-driving cars and the guidance of …