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Thiusius R. Savarimuthu

2 accepted papers

2024

Portable robot for needle insertion assistance to femoral artery

IROS 2024poster

Femoral artery access is a common and critical procedure for various cardiovascular interventions. Although it is a time critical operation, accessing the Common Femoral Artery (CFA) typically requires expertise found in specialized medical settings. The necessity for specialized personnel or transp…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2021

Autonomous Bi-Manual Surgical Suturing Based on Skills Learned from Demonstration

IROS 2021poster

We present a novel application of Learning from Demonstration to realize a fully autonomous bi-manual surgical suturing task, including needle pick up, insertion, re-grasping, extraction and hand-over. Surgical action primitives are learned from a single human demonstration and encoded into an actio…

Cited by 20SourceScholar