6 accepted papers
Transorbital Neuro Surgery (TNS) offers a novel treatment towards the lesion inside skull pursuing minimal invasiveness. Most conventional TNS tools are rigid and straight, limiting the dexterity and accessibility in passing a small port. Bendable and steerable surgical tools provides an alternative…
Severe chronic pulmonary endarterectomy needs a dissector to delicately remove proliferative intima located in the depth of the pulmonary artery. This work proposed a novel endoscopic robotized steerable dissector for this surgery, enabling easier access to curved deep artery branches. The handheld…
Magnetically-actuated continuum robots (MCRs) have the potential to be miniaturized to submillimeter sizes. However, their limited deformation modes hinder their ability to navigate through narrow and tortuous lumens. In this letter, we introduce a novel 2-degrees of freedom (DoF) MCR with diverse d
Traditional rigid endoscopes have challenges in flexibly treating tumors located deep in the brain, and low operability and fixed viewing angles limit its development. This study introduces a novel dual-segment flexible robotic endoscope MicroNeuro, designed to perform biopsies with dexterous surgic…
A cable-driven soft robot with redundancy can perform the tip trajectory tracking task and in the meanwhile fulfill some extra constraints, such as tracking with a designated tip orientation, or avoiding obstacles in the environment. These constraints require proper motion planning of the soft mater
Complex pipeline network should be inspected regularly for safety. In general, these tasks are often completed by large pipe-climbing robots or customized equipment. Most of them are not effective, and cannot work on pipes with uncertain barriers. Moreover, some pipes are mounted in constrained scen…