Accelerating surgical robotics research: A review of 10 years with the da vinci research kit

C D'Ettorre, A Mariani, A Stilli… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Human-in-the-loop embodied intelligence with interactive simulation environment for surgical robot learning

Y Long, W Wei, T Huang, Y Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robot automation has attracted increasing research interest over the past decade,
expecting its potential to benefit surgeons, nurses and patients. Recently, the learning …

Super deep: A surgical perception framework for robotic tissue manipulation using deep learning for feature extraction

J Lu, A Jayakumari, F Richter, Y Li… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic automation in surgery requires precise tracking of surgical tools and mapping of
deformable tissue. Previous works on surgical perception frameworks require significant …

Markerless camera-to-robot pose estimation via self-supervised sim-to-real transfer

J Lu, F Richter, MC Yip - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Solving the camera-to-robot pose is a fundamental requirement for vision-based robot
control, and is a process that takes considerable effort and cares to make accurate …

Robot–camera calibration in tightly constrained environment using interactive perception

F Zhong, B Li, W Chen, YH Liu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulation in tight environment is challenging but increasingly common in vision-guided
robotic applications. The significantly reduced amount of available feedback (limited visual …

Semantic-SuPer: a semantic-aware surgical perception framework for endoscopic tissue identification, reconstruction, and tracking

S Lin, AJ Miao, J Lu, S Yu, ZY Chiu… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and robust tracking and reconstruction of the surgical scene is a critical enabling
technology toward autonomous robotic surgery. Existing algorithms for 3D perception in …

Image-based pose estimation and shape reconstruction for robot manipulators and soft, continuum robots via differentiable rendering

J Lu, F Liu, C Girerd, MC Yip - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State estimation from measured data is crucial for robotic applications as autonomous
systems rely on sensors to capture the motion and localize in the 3D world. Among sensors …

Pose estimation for robot manipulators via keypoint optimization and sim-to-real transfer

J Lu, F Richter, MC Yip - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Keypoint detection is an essential building block for many robotic applications like motion
capture and pose estimation. Historically, keypoints are detected using uniquely engineered …

Semantic-SuPer: A Semantic-aware Surgical Perception Framework for Endoscopic Tissue Identification, Reconstruction, and Tracking

S Lin, AJ Miao, J Lu, S Yu, ZY Chiu, F Richter… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Accurate and robust tracking and reconstruction of the surgical scene is a critical enabling
technology toward autonomous robotic surgery. Existing algorithms for 3D perception in …

Markerless suture needle 6d pose tracking with robust uncertainty estimation for autonomous minimally invasive robotic surgery

ZY Chiu, AZ Liao, F Richter… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Suture needle localization is necessary for autonomous suturing. Previous approaches in
autonomous suturing often relied on fiducial markers rather than markerless detection …