Fast and reliable autonomous surgical debridement with cable-driven robots using a two-phase calibration procedure

D Seita, S Krishnan, R Fox, S McKinley… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automating precision subtasks such as debridement (removing dead or diseased tissue
fragments) with Robotic Surgical Assistants (RSAs) such as the da Vinci Research Kit …

Efficiently calibrating cable-driven surgical robots with RGBD fiducial sensing and recurrent neural networks

M Hwang, B Thananjeyan, S Paradis… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automation of surgical subtasks using cable-driven robotic surgical assistants (RSAs) such
as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) is challenging due to imprecision in …

Intermittent visual servoing: Efficiently learning policies robust to instrument changes for high-precision surgical manipulation

S Paradis, M Hwang, B Thananjeyan… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assisting surgeons with automation of surgical subtasks is challenging due to backlash,
hysteresis, and variable tensioning in cable-driven robots. These issues are exacerbated as …

Applying depth-sensing to automated surgical manipulation with a da vinci robot

M Hwang, D Seita, B Thananjeyan… - … on medical robotics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in depth-sensing have significantly increased accuracy, resolution, and
frame rate, as shown in the 1920x1200 resolution and 13 frames per second Zivid RGBD …

Modeling cable-driven robot with hysteresis and cable–pulley network friction

M Miyasaka, M Haghighipanah, Y Li… - IEEE/ASME …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a method of modeling robotic systems with closed-circuit cable-pulley
transmissions using the independently developed hysteretic cable stretch model and cable …

[PDF][PDF] The Raven open surgical robotic platforms: A review and prospect

Y Li, B Hannaford, J Rosen - Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 2019 - acta.uni-obuda.hu
The Raven I and the Raven II surgical robots, as open research platforms, have been
serving the robotic surgery research community for ten years. The paper 1) briefly presents …

Robotic tool tracking under partially visible kinematic chain: A unified approach

F Richter, J Lu, RK Orosco… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Anytime a robot manipulator is controlled via visual feedback, the transformation between
the robot and camera frame must be known. However, in the case where cameras can only …

Gaussian process regression for sensorless grip force estimation of cable-driven elongated surgical instruments

Y Li, B Hannaford - IEEE robotics and automation letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Haptic feedback is a critical but a clinically missing component in robotic minimally invasive
surgeries. This paper proposes a Gaussian process regression (GPR) based scheme to …

Utilizing elasticity of cable-driven surgical robot to estimate cable tension and external force

M Haghighipanah, M Miyasaka… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cable-driven robots enable compact design by allowing actuators to be mounted away from
joints. This kind of actuation is desired in surgical robots. The cables in these robots must …

Automating surgical peg transfer: Calibration with deep learning can exceed speed, accuracy, and consistency of humans

M Hwang, J Ichnowski, B Thananjeyan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Peg transfer is a well-known surgical training task in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic
Surgery (FLS). While human surgeons teleoperate robots such as the da Vinci to perform …