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MICCAI
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual Fixtures for Robotic Cardiac Surgery
We are developing virtual fixtures for the internal mammary artery (IMA) harvest portion of robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft procedures. A preoperative CT scan will be p...
Shinsuk Park, Robert D. Howe, David F. Torchiana
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A constrained optimization approach to virtual fixtures for multi-handed tasks
— 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...
Ankur Kapoor, Russell H. Taylor
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Spatial Motion Constraints for Robot Assisted Suturing Using Virtual Fixtures
We address the problem of the stitching task in endoscopic surgery using a circular needle under robotic assistance. Our main focus is to present an algorithm for suturing using gu...
Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
ICRA
2005
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Performance of Surgical Robots with Automatically Generated Spatial Virtual Fixtures
– Our recent work on robotic surgical assistant systems has led us to develop a method to generate spatial motion constraints associated with complex 3D geometry for controlling ...
Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cardiac Endoscopy Enhanced by Dynamic Organ Modeling for Minimally-Invasive Surgery Guidance
Abstract. The development of a 3D image guidance environment will significantly enhance the performance of minimally invasive robotically assisted cardiac surgery. We have previous...
Stanislaw Szpala, Gerard Guiraudon, Terry M. Peter...