Minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, benefits
patients in terms of improved postoperative outcomes and short recovery time. The …

Background Minimally invasive surgery attracts more and more attention because of the
advantages of minimal trauma, less bleeding and pain and low complication rate. However …

The surgical paradigm of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been a key driver to the
adoption of robotic surgical assistance. Progress in the last three decades has led to a …

Introduction: While autonomous surgical robotic systems exist primarily at the research level,
recently these systems have made a strong push into clinical settings. The autonomous or …

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) can reduce iatrogenic injury and decrease the possibility of
surgical complications. This paper presents a novel flexible and bendable endoscopic …

Surgical robot research is driven by the desire of improving surgical outcomes. This paper
proposed a Recurrent Neural Network based controller to address two problems: 1) …

The flexible manipulators and related robotic systems have been widely used in minimally
invasive surgery (MIS) for enhancing the intraoperative inspection and surgical operation …

Abstract The fields of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) and Natural Orifices Transluminal
Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) strive to reduce the level of invasiveness by entering the body …

The development of minimally invasive surgery will lead to the further reduction of incisions
regarding single-port surgery using only one single artificial or natural incision. Thus, it …

This paper presents a new approach for motion planning of hyper-redundant manipulators
to meet real time and high performance of the control system. In this research, the ant colony …