Functional capsule robots: A Review of locomotion, pose, medical operation and wireless power transmission reported in 2018-2023

D Hua, L Deng, J Goldasz, X Liu, H Du… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
As a new type of medical equipment, capsule robots are actuated wirelessly by space
magnetic field, which have important application advantages in the diagnosis and treatment …

Evaluation of different control strategies for trajectory following of a robotic capsule endoscope under rotating magnetic actuation

Y Xu, K Li, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is limited in the long examination time and low
flexibility since the capsule is passively moved by the natural peristalsis. Efforts have been …

Closed-loop magnetic manipulation for robotic transesophageal echocardiography

K Li, Y Xu, Z Zhao, A Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a closed-loop magnetic manipulation framework for robotic
transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) acquisitions. Different from previous work on …

Positioning a magnetically controlled capsule robot based on double-layer symmetric sensor array

D Hua, X Liu, H Du, GM Królczyk… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the miniaturization of medical equipment and the comfort of diagnosis mode,
positioning has become a major challenge in the research of capsule robots. In order to …

Model-Free Magnetic Servoing Control: Leveraging Raw Magnetic Data for Robotic Manipulation

Y Zhang, Y Qian, L Liu… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a novel, model-free magnetic servoing control approach for robotic
manipulation, typically employed for specified 6-DoF pose following or trajectory tracking …

Enhanced localization strategy for magnetic capsule robot using on-board nine-axis IMU through incorporation of alternating magnetic field

Z Huang, Y Li, T Wei, D Lu, C Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capsule robots have gained increasing prominence in gastroscopy for their diagnostic
capabilities and noninvasive accessibility to narrow passages with reduced risks. Magnetic …

A Wireless 6-DoF Pose Tracking System Using a Triaxially Anisotropic Soft Magnet

S Liu, H Wang - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic tracking, as a noncontacting and occlusion-free pose tracking method, has been
increasingly employed to track various intracorporeal medical devices such as endoscopes …

Style transfer enabled Sim2Real framework for efficient learning of robotic ultrasound image analysis using simulated data

K Li, X Mao, C Ye, A Li, Y Xu, MQH Meng - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotic ultrasound (US) systems have shown great potential to make US examinations
easier and more accurate. Recently, various machine learning techniques have been …

Uniform gradient magnetic field and spatial localization method based on Maxwell coils for virtual surgery simulation

Y Huang, X Deng, X Zhao, W Xie… - … Animation and Virtual …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of virtual reality technology, simulation surgery has become a low‐risk
surgical training method and high‐precision positioning of surgical instruments is required in …

Leveraging Three Orthogonal Magnetic Field Sources for Localization of A Magnetic Capsule Endoscope with Unique Solution

K Li, Y Xu, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel localization method for magnetically actuated capsule
endoscopy that uses three orthogonal magnetic field sources external to the capsule, and …