AIMC Topic: Equipment Design

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Design and evaluation of vascular interventional robot system for complex coronary artery lesions.

Medical & biological engineering & computing
At present, most vascular intervention robots cannot cope with the more common coronary complex lesions in the clinic. Moreover, the lack of effective force feedback increases the risk of surgery. In this paper, a vascular interventional robot that c...

Development of a remote-control system for catheterization capable of high-speed force feedback.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: There is a growing interest in minimally invasive surgery as interventional radiology (IVR), which decreases the burden on a patient. However, occupational exposure is a problem because the treatment is performed using X-ray fluoroscopic ima...

Real-time fundus reconstruction and intraocular mapping using an ophthalmic endoscope.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
BACKGROUND: Robotic ophthalmic endoscope holders allow surgeons to execute dual-hand operations in eye surgery. To prevent needle-like endoscopes from invading the retina when moving, surgeons expect visual and real-time information about the relativ...

Low Cost Magnetic Field Control for Disabled People.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Our research presents a cost-effective navigation system for electric wheelchairs that utilizes the tongue as a human-machine interface (HMI) for disabled individuals. The user controls the movement of the wheelchair by wearing a small neodymium magn...

An at-scale tailless flapping wing hummingbird robot: II. Flight control in hovering and trajectory tracking.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Flight control such as stable hovering and trajectory tracking of tailless flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles is a challenging task. Given the constraint on actuation capability, flight control authority is limited beyond sufficient lift generation....

A Preprogrammable Continuum Robot Inspired by Elephant Trunk for Dexterous Manipulation.

Soft robotics
Cable-driven continuum robots with hyper-redundant deformable backbones show great promise in applications, such as inspection in unstructured environments, where traditional rigid robots with discrete links and joints fail to operate. However, the m...

Neural Network-Based Active Load-Sensing Scheme and Stiffness Adjustment for Pneumatic Soft Actuators for Minimally Invasive Surgery Support.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
To provide a stable surgical view in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), it is necessary for a flexible endoscope applied in MIS to have adjustable stiffness to resist different external loads from surrounding organs and tissues. Pneumatic soft actuato...

Endoscopic surgery robot that facilitates insertion of the curved colon and ensures positional stability against external forces: K-COLON.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
BACKGROUND: Although various endoscopic surgery robots developed in previous studies are versatile and have high lesion accessibility, they have limitations in terms of reaching the target lesion through the curved path in the large intestine and pro...

Design and control of soft biomimetic pangasius fish robot using fin ray effect and reinforcement learning.

Scientific reports
Soft robots provide a pathway to accurately mimic biological creatures and be integrated into their environment with minimal invasion or disruption to their ecosystem. These robots made from soft deforming materials possess structural properties and ...

Proposal of a Real-Time Test Platform for Tactile Internet Systems.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
This work aimed to develop a real-time test platform for systems associated with the tactile internet area. The proposal comprises a master device, a communication channel and a slave device. The master device is a tactile glove (wearable technology)...