Abstract— Flexible needles with bevel tips are being developed as useful tools for minimally invasive surgery and percutaneous therapy. When such a needle is inserted into soft t...
Wooram Park, Kyle Brandon Reed, Allison M. Okamura...
— New technologies and processes enhance the need for direct human-robot-interaction, to fully exploit the potential of robots’ accuracy and humans’ adaptability. Therefore, ...
— In this work, we have extended the concept of constrained motion control of robots to surgical tasks that require multiple robots. We present virtual fixtures to guide the mot...
— The light-weight robots developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are characterized by their low inertial properties, torque sensing in each joint and a load to weight rat...
− To facilitate training and planning for medical procedures such as prostate brachytherapy, we are developing an interactive simulation of needle insertion and radioactive seed ...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Jean Pouliot,...