— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
— The work presented in this paper addresses the problem of the stitching task in laparoscopic surgery using a circular needle and a conventional 4 DOFs needle-holder. This task ...
Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Michel de Mathel...
— Despite the many significant advances made in robotics research, few works have focused on the tight integration of task planning and motion control. Most integration works in...
This paper presents a randomized motion planner for kinodynamic asteroidavoidanceproblems, in which a robot must avoid collision with moving obstacles under kinematic, dynamic con...
Robert Kindel, David Hsu, Jean-Claude Latombe, Ste...
: Locomotion and navigation of a surface walking/climbing robot – Planar Walker, based on a novel planar 8-bar mechanism are studied. The robot moves on a surface through decoupl...