ArticleProceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022
Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions.
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- Error-State Model Predictive Path Integral Control of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots using Cosserat Rod Dynamics with Strain Parametrization.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2026Article
- Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Robot for MRI-Guided Intratumoral Therapeutic Delivery.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2026Article
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- Design and Validation of a Compact Concentric-Tube Robot for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2025Article
- Materials Advances in Devices for Heart Disease Interventions.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Deep Koopman Approach for Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2025Article
- A flexible transoral swab sampling robot system with visual-tactile fusion approach.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- A variable stiffness robotically steerable guidewire for endovascular interventions.npj Robotics · 2025Article
- Towards Design and Development of an MRI Conditional Robot to Enable Curvilinear Transperineal Prostate Biopsy.The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2024Article
- Submillimeter fiber robots capable of decoupled macro-micro motion for endoluminal manipulation.Science advances · 2024Article
- Modeling Non-linear Effects in a 4-DoF Robotic Transcatheter Delivery System.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2024Article
- Investigating Haptic Feedback in Vision-Deficient Millirobot Telemanipulation.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2024Article
- Toward Extending Concentric Tube Robot Kinematics for Large Clearance and Impulse Curvature.IEEE robotics and automation letters · 2024Article
- Bioinspired handheld time-share driven robot with expandable DoFs.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Performance evaluation of PSO-PID and PSO-FLC for continuum robot's developed modeling and control.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An Operating Stiffness Controller for the Medical Continuum Robot Based on Impedance Control.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Continuum robots are not constructed with discrete joints but, instead, change shape and position their tip by flexing along their entire length. Their narrow curvilinear shape makes them well suited to passing through body lumens, natural orifices, or small surgical incisions to perform minimally invasive procedures. Modeling and controlling these robots are, however, substantially more complex than traditional robots comprised of rigid links connected by discrete joints. Furthermore, there are many approaches to achieving robot flexure. Each presents its own design and modeling challenges, and to date, each has been pursued largely independently of the others. This article attempts to provide a unified summary of the state of the art of continuum robot architectures with respect to design for specific clinical applications. It also describes a unifying framework for modeling and controlling these systems while additionally explaining the elements unique to each architecture. The major research accomplishments are described for each topic and directions for the future progress needed to achieve widespread clinical use are identified.
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