ArticleIEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society2016
Design of 3-D Printed Concentric Tube Robots.
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- Non-Metallic MR-Guided Concentric Tube Robot for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2023Article
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- Real-Time Shape Estimation for Concentric Tube Continuum Robots with a Single Force/Torque Sensor.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- A Dynamic Model for Concentric Tube Robots.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2020Article
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- Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery.Soft robotics · 2019Article
- Towards Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Robotic Systems for Surgical Interventions.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2019Article
- Asymptotically Optimal Kinematic Design of Robots using Motion Planning.Autonomous robots · 2019Article
- Toward the Design of Personalized Continuum Surgical Robots.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2018Article
- Design of patient-specific concentric tube robots using path planning from 3-D ultrasound.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2017Article
- Design of a Compact Actuation and Control System for Flexible Medical Robots.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2017Article
- Surgeon Design Interface for Patient-Specific Concentric Tube Robots.Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics · 2016Article
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Concentric tube surgical robots are minimally invasive devices with the advantages of snake-like reconfigurability, long and thin form factor, and placement of actuation outside the patient's body. These robots can also be designed and manufactured to acquire targets in specific patients for treating specific diseases in a manner that minimizes invasiveness. We propose that concentric tube robots can be manufactured using 3-D printing technology on a patient- and procedure-specific basis. In this paper, we define the design requirements and manufacturing constraints for 3-D printed concentric tube robots and experimentally demonstrate the capabilities of these robots. While numerous 3-D printing technologies and materials can be used to create such robots, one successful example uses selective laser sintering to make an outer tube with a polyether block amide and uses stereolithography to make an inner tube with a polypropylene-like material. This enables a tube pair with precurvatures of 0.0775 and 0.0455 mm
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