Telemanipulation of Snake-Like Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Upper Airway


Presented By:
Ankur Kapoor1, Kai Xu2, Wei Wei2
Nabil Simaan2 and Russell H. Taylor1

1 ERC-CISST
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University


2 ARMA: Advanced Robotics & Mechanism Applications
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University



Limitations of the Surgical Setup
Human-machine cooperative manipulation in surgery
Related Works:Surgical Dexterity Enhancement
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Abstract
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Presented By:
Lijuan Xiao, Yanmin Zhu,Lionel M. Ni,Zhiwei Xu
Abstract”
A sustainable market-like computational grid has two characteristics: it must allow resource providers and resource consumers to make autonomous scheduling decisions, and both parties of providers and consumers must have sufficient incentives to stay and play in the market. In this paper, we formulate this intuition of optimizing incentives for both parties as a dual-objective scheduling problem. The two objectives identified are to maximize the success rate ....etc

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Study on the Mechanism and Locomotion Strategy
for New Snake-Like Robot Active Cord Mechanism


This paper presents ACM-S1 (Active Cord Mechanism
- Slime model 1), a snake-like robot. Conventional
snake-like robots have difficulty negotiation uneven
ground. In this paper, we propose “a bending
and expanding joint unit” which has three degrees
of freedom (3DOF) in inchworm/angleworm-like
motion and has been developed to solve this problem.
The ACM-S1 we developed is composed of a series
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Most wheeled mobile robot (WMR) controllers have been developed based on nonskidding and nonslipping assumptions. Unfortunately, wheel skidding and slipping are inevitable due to wheel tire-deformation; consequently, the stability and performance of these controllers are not guaranteed. This brief aims to develop a global positioning system (GPS)-based path following a controller for a car-like wheeled mobile robot in the presence of wheel skidding and slipping. The proposed control scheme uses real-time kinematic (RTK)-GPS and other aiding sen ....etc

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