Article... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics2024
Design of Transmission Tubes for Surgical Concentric Push-Pull Robots.
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- A Review of Peripheral Vascular Intervention Technologies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- A System for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Featuring Concentric Push-Pull Manipulators.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation : ICRA : [proceedings]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2025Article
- A flexible transoral swab sampling robot system with visual-tactile fusion approach.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Stiff yet Bendy: Tubular Transmissions for Driving Surgical Robots through Flexible Endoscopes.Journal of medical robotics researchArticle
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Abstract
The performance of concentric push-pull robots passing through endoscopes is best if their laser-cut transmission tubes exhibit high axial stiffness, high torsional stiffness, and low bending stiffness. In this paper we simultaneously consider all three output stiffness values in the design problem, explicitly considering axial stiffness, whereas prior work has focused on the bending/torsional stiffness ratio. We show that it is very challenging for existing laser-cut patterns to simultaneously achieve high axial stiffness and low bending stiffness because these stiffnesses are tightly coupled. To break this coupling and balance all three stiffness factors independently, we propose a new laser material removal design approach that leverages local stiffness asymmetry
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