ArticleScience robotics2019
Autonomous Robotic Intracardiac Catheter Navigation Using Haptic Vision.
Article in Science robotics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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52 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Soft Robotic Delivery of Coiled Anchors for Cardiac Interventions.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2025Article
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- Self-Steering Catheters for Neuroendovascular Interventions.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2024Article
- Design and Assembly of a Miniature Catheter Imaging System for In Vivo Heart Endoscopic Imaging.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Advances in Modern Microsurgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Advances of surgical robotics: image-guided classification and application.National science review · 2024Review
- Three-dimensional micro strain gauges as flexible, modular tactile sensors for versatile integration with micro- and macroelectronics.Science advances · 2024Article
- How AI and Robotics Will Advance Interventional Radiology: Narrative Review and Future Perspectives.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Endovascular Detection of Catheter-Thrombus Contact by Vacuum Excitation.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2024Article
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Abstract
While all minimally invasive procedures involve navigating from a small incision in the skin to the site of the intervention, it has not been previously demonstrated how this can be done autonomously. To show that autonomous navigation is possible, we investigated it in the hardest place to do it - inside the beating heart. We created a robotic catheter that can navigate through the blood-filled heart using wall-following algorithms inspired by positively thigmotactic animals. The catheter employs haptic vision, a hybrid sense using imaging for both touch-based surface identification and force sensing, to accomplish wall following inside the blood-filled heart. Through in vivo animal experiments, we demonstrate that the performance of an autonomously-controlled robotic catheter rivals that of an experienced clinician. Autonomous navigation is a fundamental capability on which more sophisticated levels of autonomy can be built, e.g., to perform a procedure. Similar to the role of automation in fighter aircraft, such capabilities can free the clinician to focus on the most critical aspects of the procedure while providing precise and repeatable tool motions independent of operator experience and fatigue.
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