Data-driven methods applied to soft robot modeling and control: A review

Z Chen, F Renda, A Le Gall, L Mocellin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these
properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics …

Efficient rrt*-based safety-constrained motion planning for continuum robots in dynamic environments

P Luo, S Yao, Y Yue, J Wang, H Yan… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots, characterized by their high flexibility and infinite degrees of freedom
(DoFs), have gained prominence in applications such as minimally invasive surgery and …

Joint Sparse Representations and Coupled Dictionary Learning in Multi-Source Heterogeneous Image Pseudo-color Fusion

L Bai, S Yao, K Gao, Y Huang, R Tang… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering that coupled dictionary learning (CDL) method can obtain a reasonable linear
mathematical relationship between resource images, we propose a novel CDL-based …

A miniature triaxial force sensor based on fiber Bragg gratings for flexible endoscopic robot

F Wang, Q Jiang, Y Zhang, R Ibrahim, D Li - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Contact force sensing is an important means to ensure the safe operation of surgical robots.
This paper presents a miniature triaxial force sensor based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for …

Soft Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion through Machine Learning

J Tao, T Li, Q Hu, E Dong - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft origami continuum robots show great potential compared with traditional rigid robots
because of their hyper-redundant deformation. However, motion control of these robots …

Image-Based Force Localization and Estimation of a Micro-Scale Continuum Guidewire Robot

TA Brumfiel, R Qi, S Ravigopal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many intravascular procedures are prefaced by the placement of a slender wire called a
guidewire. Steering these guidewires is met with challenges in controlling the distal end …

Head Pose Estimation and 3D Neural Surface Reconstruction via Monocular Camera in situ for Navigation and Safe Insertion into Natural Openings

R Tang, B Cui, H Ren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13048, 2024 - arxiv.org
As the significance of simulation in medical care and intervention continues to grow, it is
anticipated that a simplified and low-cost platform can be set up to execute personalized …