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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Design, simulation and evaluation of kinematic alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Sur
This paper presents the task specifications for designing a novel Insertable Robotic Effectors Platform (IREP) with integrated stereo vision and surgical intervention tools for Sin...
Jienan Ding, Kai Xu 0005, Roger E. Goldman, Peter ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Visual sensing of continuum robot shape using self-organizing maps
— Shape control of continuum robots requires a means of sensing the the curved shape of the robot. Since continuum robots are deformable, they take on shapes that are general cur...
Jordan M. Croom, D. Caleb Rucker, Joseph M. Romano...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
A model for concentric tube continuum robots under applied wrenches
Abstract— Continuum robots made from telescoping precurved elastic tubes enable base-mounted actuators to specify the curved shapes of robots as thin as standard surgical needles...
D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A New Approach to Jacobian Formulation for a Class of Multi-Section Continuum Robots
– We introduce a new method for synthesizing kinematics and Jacobian relationships for an important class of continuous backbone “continuum” robots. The resulting Jacobians e...
Bryan A. Jones, Ian D. Walker
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Practical Kinematics for Real-time Implementation of Continuum Robots
Abstract - This paper introduces new analyses and algorithms which are essential for the practical implementation of continuous backbone continuum robots. Actuator length limits st...
Bryan A. Jones, William McMahan, Ian D. Walker
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
System design of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery
—This paper presents a novel design and preliminary kinematic analysis of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform (IREP) for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery. The IREP robot can ...
Kai Xu 0005, Roger E. Goldman, Jienan Ding, Peter ...