4-dof visual servoing of a robotic flexible endoscope with a predefined-time convergent and noise-immune adaptive neural network

Y Huang, W Li, X Zhang, J Li, Y Li, Y Sun… - IEEE/ASME …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endoscopes provide views inside the patient's body during minimally invasive surgery.
Although various robotic endoscopes have been developed to reduce surgeons' workload in …

Autonomous recognition of multiple surgical instruments tips based on arrow OBB-YOLO network

J Peng, Q Chen, L Kang, H Jie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In surgery, the robot can automatically adjust the endoscope to ensure the stability of the
surgical image and reduce the burden on the doctor. It is becoming a research hotspot of …

Accelerated dual neural network controller for visual servoing of flexible endoscopic robot with tracking error, joint motion, and RCM constraints

Z Cui, W Li, X Zhang, PWY Chiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming at the requirements for endoscope in minimally invasive surgery, a dual neural
network (DNN) controller is designed for a flexible endoscopic robot (FER) with 10 DOF …

Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Adjustment: A Meta-Analysis and Review

W Wang, Y Luo, J Wang, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advancement of robot technology, the use of a robot system to control an
endoscope during minimally invasive surgery has evolved significantly. Using a robot …

Tele-operated oropharyngeal swab (TOOS) robot enabled by TSS soft hand for safe and effective sampling

W Chen, J Zhou, SS Cheng, Y Lu… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed serious challenges in multiple perspectives of
human life. To diagnose COVID-19, oropharyngeal swab (OP SWAB) sampling is generally …

Lightweight deep neural network for real-time instrument semantic segmentation in robot assisted minimally invasive surgery

Y Sun, B Pan, Y Fu - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based detection and tracking of surgical instrument is attractive because it relies
purely on existing setup already in the operating scenario for Robot assisted minimally …

Endoscope FOV autonomous tracking method for robot-assisted surgery considering pose control, hand–eye coordination, and image definition

J Peng, C Zhang, L Kang, G Feng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In laparoscopic surgeries, intelligent-assisted endoscope-holding robots (AEHRs) with
traditional servo control have limited performance due to the lack of endoscopic attitude …

Autonomous intelligent navigation for flexible endoscopy using monocular depth guidance and 3-D shape planning

Y Lu, R Wei, B Li, W Chen, J Zhou… - … on robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advancements toward perception and decision-making of flexible endoscopes have
shown great potential in computer-aided surgical interventions. However, owing to modeling …

Augmented reality-assisted autonomous view adjustment of a 6-DOF robotic stereo flexible endoscope

X Ma, C Song, L Qian, W Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stereo visual servo based surgical instruments tracking enables quicker adjustment of the
view and depth of the robotic stereo flexible endoscope (RSFE). However, there are two …

A surgeon preference-guided autonomous instrument tracking method with a robotic flexible endoscope based on dVRK platform

Y Huang, J Li, X Zhang, K Xie, J Li, Y Liu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In minimally invasive surgery, endoscopes serve as the eyes of surgeon. To avoid fatigue in
manual endoscope steering, robotic endoscope holders have been developed …