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Wenjie Lai

4 accepted papers

2024

A Detachable FBG-Based Contact Force Sensor for Capturing Gripper-Vegetable Interactions

ICRA 2024poster

Vertical farming, a sustainable key for urban agriculture, has garnered attention for its land use optimization and enhanced food production capabilities. The adoption of automation in vertical farming is a pivotal response to labor shortages, addressing the need for increased efficiency, particular…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2021

Design and Evaluation of a Foot-Controlled Robotic System for Endoscopic Surgery

RA-L 2021

In traditional endoscopic surgery, the surgeon manipulating the endoscopic instruments is supported by an assistant controlling the endoscope, where their coordination may be affected by communication errors. To address this issue, we introduce a foot interface controlled robotic endoscopic system,

Cited by 21SourceScholar
2020

Joint Rotation Angle Sensing of Flexible Endoscopic Surgical Robots

ICRA 2020poster

Accurate motion control of surgical robots is critical for the efficiency and safety of both state-of-the-art teleoperated robotic surgery and the ultimate autonomous robotic surgery. However, fine motion control for a flexible endoscopic surgical robot is highly challenging because of the shape-dep…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2018

Distal End Force Sensing with Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings for Tendon-Sheath Mechanisms in Flexible Endoscopic Robots

ICRA 2018poster

Accurate haptic feedback is a critical challenge for surgical robots, especially for flexible endoscopic surgical robots whose transmission systems are Tendon-Sheath Mechanisms (TSMs) with highly nonlinear friction profiles and force hysteresis. For distal end haptic sensing of TSMs, this paper, for…

Cited by 41SourceScholar