8 accepted papers
Collision detection between robotic hands and manipulated objects is crucial to model predictive control (MPC) for contact-rich dexterous manipulation. Based on the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm and the expanding polytope algorithm (EPA), the GJK-EPA method has achieved success while requi…
Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a procedure targeted for early gastrointestinal cancer. Traction plays a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency of cutting lesions, thereby reducing procedural complexity and duration. From the perspective of traction devices, current non-magnetic ones hol
In response to torso-oriented magnetic localization tasks that require the system to have interactivity and flexibility with guaranteed accuracy, a novel bio-inspired magnetic sensor array configuration is proposed in this paper. Precisely, the ideas of the natural characteristics of octopus flexibl…
This paper is concerned with the issue of the kinematic model-based bending control for the magnetically actuated robotic endoscope and its application for automatic retroflexion. By the utilization of the Cosserat rod theory and the transformation in the magnetic tip of the endoscope, the comprehen…
In image-guided robotic surgery, there exist different endoscopes coupled either with specialized surgical robots (SSRs) or general industrial robots (GIRs). In general, SSRs mechanically respect the remote-center-of-motion (RCM) constraints with directly and explicitly controllable degrees-of-freed
This paper presents a long-range magnetic actuated and guided endoscope for uniport video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). In VATS, the incision is quite narrow and part of the chest wall may be very thick. So, the magnetic endoscope system is required to produce sufficient attractive force at a co…
Crawling through various terrains has been a long research interest. In recent years, quite a number of soft crawling robots have been developed. However, locomoting in an elastic, humid, and slippery environment remains a challenge. In nature, gastropods, such as snails, live in humid environment a…
Colorectal cancer incidence has been steadily rising worldwide. Magnetic colonoscopes provide new approaches to conduct colon inspection and treatment. This paper presents a novel electromagnetically actuated soft-tethered colonoscope to achieve precise and stable orientation control. An inflated ba…