Cristina Iacono — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Towards Safe Autonomous Surgical Tasks with Control Barrier Functions

Cristina Iacono, Paolino De Risi, Rocco Moccia, Bruno Siciliano, Fanny Ficuciello

ICRA 2026poster

Safety is of utmost importance in surgical robots, as they operate in a complex and dynamic environment that directly impacts the patient’s health based on the surgical procedure’s success. One of the main difficulties in the control of surgical manipulators is in efficiently encoding dynamic nonlin…

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2020

Vision-Based Dynamic Virtual Fixtures for Tools Collision Avoidance in Robotic Surgery

Rocco Moccia, Cristina Iacono, Bruno Siciliano, Fanny Ficuciello

RA-L 2020

In robot-aided surgery, during the execution of typical bimanual procedures such as dissection, surgical tools can collide and create serious damage to the robot or tissues. The da Vinci robot is one of the most advanced and certainly the most widespread robotic system dedicated to minimally invasiv

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