Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is a common procedure for patients managed
in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). PDT has equivalent complication rates to surgical …

This study presents the development of a grey-box modelling approach and fuzzy logic
control for real time trajectory control of an experimental four degree-of-freedom Leader …

Background Robot‐assisted minimally invasive surgery has shown tremendous advances
over the traditional technique. However, currently commercialized systems are large and …

Purpose Automatic image segmentation of surgical instruments is a fundamental task in
robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, which greatly improves the context awareness of …

Robotic-assisted single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is becoming an increasingly
widespread field worldwide due to the benefits it brings to both the patient and the surgeon …

Background The performance of robotic end‐effector movements can reflect the user's
operation skill difference in robot‐assisted minimally invasive surgery. This study quantified …

The external force sensing ability of the end-effector plays a significant role in restricting the
refine operation of a surgical robot. This paper proposes an external force self-sensing …

This paper proposes a novel 7-DoF operator interface based on a redundantly actuated
parallel architecture of 2 (RRRS)-RRRSP. This design effectively avoids the workspace …

Background and Objective: accompanied with the wide acceptance of robot assisted
minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), the demand for efficient and objective surgical skills …

Background Force sensing for robotic surgery is limited by the size of the instrument, friction
and sterilization requirements. This paper presents a force‐sensing instrument to avoid …