Robot autonomy for surgery

M Yip, N Das - The Encyclopedia of MEDICAL ROBOTICS: Volume …, 2019 - World Scientific
Autonomous surgery involves having surgical tasks performed by a robot operating under its
own will, with partial or no human involvement. There are several important advantages of …

Flexible instruments for endovascular interventions: Improved magnetic steering, actuation, and image-guided surgical instruments

C Heunis, J Sikorski, S Misra - IEEE robotics & automation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endovascular surgery has gained broad acceptance in the last few years. The current
practice of endovascular procedures is limited by factors including patient-specific operation …

Robotic intra-operative ultrasound: Virtual environments and parallel systems

S Wang, J Housden, T Bai, H Liu, J Back… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic intra-operative ultrasound has the potential to improve the conventional practice of
diagnosis and procedure guidance that are currently performed manually. Working towards …

Modeling and validation of the three-dimensional deflection of an MRI-compatible magnetically actuated steerable catheter

T Liu, NL Poirot, D Franson, N Seiberlich… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This paper presents the 3-D kinematic modeling of a novel steerable robotic
ablation catheter system. The catheter, embedded with a set of current-carrying microcoils, is …

Robot-assisted trans-esophageal ultrasound and the virtual admittance-based master-slave control method thereof

Y **e, J Guo, Z Deng, X Hou, J Housden… - IEEE/ASME …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotic transesophageal ultrasound system has the potential to improve the
conventional practice of diagnosis and procedure guidance that are currently performed …

Algorithms for automatically pointing ultrasound imaging catheters

PM Loschak, LJ Brattain… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A system for automatically pointing ultrasound (US) imaging catheters will enable clinicians
to monitor anatomical structures and track instruments during interventional procedures. Off …

Design, testing and modelling of a novel robotic system for trans‐oesophageal ultrasound

S Wang, J Housden, D Singh… - … Journal of Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Trans‐oesophageal echocardiography (TOE) has been widely utilized for
cardiac disease diagnosis and interventional procedure guidance. However, the TOE …

Compensation for unconstrained catheter shaft motion in cardiac catheters

A Degirmenci, PM Loschak… - … on Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardiac catheterization with ultrasound (US) imaging catheters provides real time US
imaging from within the heart, but manually navigating a four degree of freedom (DOF) …

Automated detection of soleus concentric contraction in variable gait conditions for improved exosuit control

RW Nuckols, K Swaminathan, S Lee… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exosuits can reduce metabolic demand and improve gait. Controllers explicitly derived from
biological mechanisms that reflect the user's joint or muscle dynamics should in theory allow …

A robotic system for actively stiffening flexible manipulators

PM Loschak, SF Burke, E Zumbro… - 2015 IEEE/RSJ …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A system for actively changing the stiffness of a long, thin, flexible robotic manipulator has
been designed for cardiologists to use in a range of diagnosis and treatment procedures …