[HTML][HTML] A survey of small bowel modelling and its applications for capsule endoscopy

Y Liu, J Tian, L Manfredi, BS Terry, S Prasad, I Rahman… - Mechatronics, 2022 - Elsevier
The small intestine, an anatomical site previously considered inaccessible to clinicians due
to its small diameter and length, is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach …

A review of modeling and control of remote-controlled capsule endoscopes

A Fakhr Abdollahi, MH Shaheed… - Expert Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The significance of this review lies in addressing the limitations of passive
locomotion in capsule endoscopes, hindering their widespread use in medical applications …

[HTML][HTML] Speed optimisation and reliability analysis of a self-propelled capsule robot moving in an uncertain frictional environment

M Liao, J Zhang, Y Liu, D Zhu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a self-propelled capsule robot for small-bowel endoscopy driven by its
internal vibro-impact excitation is studied in this paper. Due to its complex anatomy, the …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of a self-propelled capsule robot in contact with different folds in the small intestine

S Yin, Y Yan, JP Chávez, Y Liu - Communications in Nonlinear Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the anatomy of small intestine involving lesions, circular folds and tumours are
the major sources resisting the locomotion of capsule robots. By mimicking the small-bowel …

[HTML][HTML] Finite element analysis of a self-propelled capsule robot moving in the small intestine

J Tian, Y Liu, J Chen, B Guo, S Prasad - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to optimise the passage of the self-propelled capsule robot in the small intestine,
capsule-intestine interactions were studied in this paper via finite element (FE) analysis and …

Nonlinear dynamics of new magneto-mechanical oscillator

Z Hao, D Wang, M Wiercigroch - Communications in Nonlinear Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents modelling and analysis of a new magneto-mechanical (MM) oscillator
(Wiercigroch et al., 2020), which pays a special attention to mechanical and magnetic …

Dynamic analysis of a soft capsule robot self-propelling in the small intestine via finite element method

J Tian, KO Afebu, Z Wang, Y Liu, S Prasad - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
To reduce potential trauma to the intestine caused by the rigid shell while also optimising its
progression efficiency, an elastomer coating was applied to a self-propelled capsule robot …

Dynamics of a vibro-impact self-propelled capsule encountering a circular fold in the small intestine

Y Yan, B Zhang, Y Liu, S Prasad - Meccanica, 2023 - Springer
Given the anatomy of the small intestine, this paper investigates the dynamics of a vibro-
impact capsule moving on an intestinal substrate with the consideration of a circular fold …

Two-stage machine learning models for bowel lesions characterisation using self-propelled capsule dynamics

KO Afebu, J Tian, E Papatheou, Y Liu, S Prasad - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
To foster early bowel cancer diagnosis, a non-invasive biomechanical characterisation of
bowel lesions is proposed. This method uses the dynamics of a self-propelled capsule and a …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical analysis of a multistable capsule system under the delayed feedback control with a constant delay

Z Zhang, JP Chávez, J Sieber, Y Liu - International Journal of Non-Linear …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vibro-impact capsule system is a self-propelled mechanism that has abundant
coexisting attractors and moves rectilinearly under periodic excitation when overcoming …