Heart motion compensation is a challenging problem within medical robotics and it is still
considered an open research area due to the lack of robustness. As it can be formulated as …

Worldwide cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of death. Beside heart transplants,
which is a limited option due to the available number of human donor hearts, artificial hearts …

A robotic heart motion simulator (HMS) is developed at DLR (German Aerospace Center) to
accurately simulate real translational motions of a mechanically stabilized beating heart in a …

Heart motion compensation is a key issue in medical robotics due to the benefits that
minimally invasive beating heart surgery offers over traditional cardiac surgery. Although …

Introduction: To obtain maximal benefit from dynamic cardiomyoplasty, stimulation
parameters of the cardiomyostimulator need to be optimized. The two components for …

In the past few years, several research groups have worked on the design of efficient motion
compensation systems for cardiac robotic-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). By …

This thesis describes the development of a heart motion compensation system on the da
Vinci Research Kit for coronary artery bypass surgery. With this teleoperation robotic …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to describe a design process for a drive of a
ventricular assist device (VAD) under the consideration of constraints given by the …

In order to assist and substitute diseased cardiac functions, it is important to develop a
robotic artificial heart capable of adapting to physiologic changes in the same way the …

Heart beating is a major challenge in minimally invasive coronary artery surgery. A
promising solution is to develop a motion compensation robotic system that gives the …