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ArticleAutonomous robots2019

Asymptotically Optimal Kinematic Design of Robots using Motion Planning.

Cenk Baykal, Chris Bowen, Ron Alterovitz

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Article in Autonomous robots, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. On Surgical Planning of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy with Patient-Specific CTRs.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention · 2022
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  2. A simulation study to investigate the use of concentric tube robots for epilepsy surgery.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022
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  3. Optimizing Motion-Planning Problem Setup via Bounded Evaluation with Application to Following Surgical Trajectories.Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2019
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  4. Design Considerations for a Steerable Needle Robot to Maximize Reachable Lung Volume.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation : ICRA : [proceedings]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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3 authors.

Cenk BaykalMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, baykal@mit.edu.
Chris BowenUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, cbbowen@cs.unc.edu.
Ron AlterovitzUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, ron@cs.unc.edu.

Funding

Bronchoscopic Steerable Needles for Transparenchymal Access to Lung NodulesR01EB024864 · NIBIB · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ALTEROVITZ, RON · 2017 to 2021
$2.5M
Robotic Natural Orifice Skull Base SurgeryR01EB017467 · NIBIB · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WEBSTER, ROBERT JAMES · 2013 to 2016
$1.7M
Multi-lumen steerable needles for transoral access to lung nodulesR21EB017952 · NIBIB · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ALTEROVITZ, RON · 2013 to 2014
$409k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017467NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB024864NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB017952
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In highly constrained settings, e.g., a tentaclelike medical robot maneuvering through narrow cavities in the body for minimally invasive surgery, it may be difficult or impossible for a robot with a generic kinematic design to reach all desirable targets while avoiding obstacles. We introduce a design optimization method to compute kinematic design parameters that enable a single robot to reach as many desirable goal regions as possible while avoiding obstacles in an environment. Our method appropriately integrates sampling based motion planning in configuration space into stochastic optimization in design space so that, over time, our evaluation of a design's ability to reach goals increases in accuracy and our selected designs approach global optimality. We prove the asymptotic optimality of our method and demonstrate performance in simulation for (i) a serial manipulator and (ii) a concentric tube robot, a tentacle-like medical robot that can bend around anatomical obstacles to safely reach clinically- relevant goal regions.

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Concentric tube robotsDesign optimizationMotion planning

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PMID31007394
PMCPMC6472929

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