Needle insertion for percutaneous therapies is formulated as a trajectory planning and control problem. A new concept of needle steering is developed and a Needle Manipulation Jaco...
— In this article, the authors examine the problem of designing nominal manipulator Jacobians that are optimally fault tolerant to one or more joint failures. In this work, optim...
Rodney G. Roberts, Hyun Geun Yu, Anthony A. Maciej...
—This paper addresses the design considerations and dexterity evaluation of a novel hybrid two-armed micro-surgical slave robot equipped with intraocular dexterity devices. A uni...
Wei Wei, Roger E. Goldman, Nabil Simaan, Howard F....
—The concept of ‘manipulability’ is particularly important to characterize the ability of a serial kinematic chain – artificial manipulator or natural limb – to move quic...
— We consider the kinematic control problem for nonholonomic mobile manipulators (NMMs) whose base contains steering wheels. For all typical tasks, the steering velocity inputs o...
Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Robuffo...