Magnetically actuated continuum medical robots: A review

Z Yang, H Yang, Y Cao, Y Cui… - Advanced intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

Image-integrated magnetic actuation systems for localization and remote actuation of medical miniature robots: A survey

X Du, J Yu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic miniature robots are promising tools for minimally invasive and noninvasive
therapy. Constructing systems with actuation–perception loops is an essential step to …

Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

Collaborative magnetic manipulation via two robotically actuated permanent magnets

G Pittiglio, M Brockdorff, T da Veiga… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetically actuated robots have proven effective in several applications, specifically in
medicine. However, generating high actuating fields with a high degree of manipulability is …

Magnetically actuated capsule robots: A review

W Chen, J Sui, C Wang - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera inside a capsule
endoscope to capture pictures of the patient's gastrointestinal tract for diagnosis …

Multipoint simultaneous tracking of wireless capsule endoscope using magnetic sensor array

M Wang, S Song, J Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic tracking has been well studied for the localization of wireless capsule robots.
However, most of the existing magnetic localization systems require a stable background …

Magnetic continuum robot with intraoperative magnetic moment programming

Y Cao, Z Yang, B Hao, X Wang, M Cai, Z Qi, B Sun… - Soft …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Magnetic continuum robots (MCRs), which are free of complicated structural designs for
transmission, can be miniaturized and are therefore widely used in the medical field …

Redundant electromagnetic control of an endoscopic magnetic capsule driven by multiple electromagnets configuration

J Kim, HS Lee, MC Hoang, S Jeong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a novel stationary electromagnetic actuation system (EMS) and a
redundant magnetic field control approach that can enhance the magnetic actuation ability …

Medical microrobot—A drug delivery capsule endoscope with active locomotion and drug release mechanism: Proof of concept

KT Nguyen, MC Hoang, E Choi, B Kang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a robotic capsule endoscope integrated a targeted drug delivery
module (DDM) for digestive diseases treatments. The capsule with a big permanent magnet …

A robotic biopsy endoscope with magnetic 5-DOF locomotion and a retractable biopsy punch

MC Hoang, VH Le, KT Nguyen, VD Nguyen, J Kim… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Capsule endoscopes (CEs) have emerged as an advanced diagnostic technology for
gastrointestinal diseases in recent decades. However, with regard to robotic motions, they …