In minimally invasive endovascular interventional surgery, guidewire navigation is an
indispensable process. However, even experienced physicians often encounter difficulties …

Increased demand for less invasive procedures has accelerated the adoption of Intraluminal
Procedures (IP) and Endovascular Interventions (EI) performed through body lumens and …

In endovascular interventions, vessels serve as access routes to deep and remote anatomic
regions [1]. Navigation through narrow, fragile, and deformable vessels in endovascular …

Manual navigation of a guidewire is the first step in endovascular interventions. However,
this procedure is time consuming with uncertain results due to tortuous vascular anatomy …

This research reports VascularPilot3D, the first 3D fully autonomous endovascular robot
navigation system. As an exploration toward autonomous guidewire navigation …

Purpose Endovascular intervention is limited by two-dimensional intraoperative imaging and
prolonged procedure times in the presence of complex anatomies. Robotic catheter …

Remote-controlled interventional robots are widely studied in recent years to reduce the
radiation exposure of operators in catheter-based vessel intervention surgery (VIS) …

Objective One limitation of the use of robotic catheters is the lack of real-time three-
dimensional (3D) localization and position updating: they are still navigated based on two …

Manual guidewire navigation and placement for minimally invasive surgeries suffer from
technical challenges due to imprecise tip motion control to traverse highly tortuous …

The size limitations and tortuosity of the neurovasculature currently exceed the capabilities
of existing robotic systems. Furthermore, safety considerations require a fail-safe design …