Ali Ebrahimi, Muller Urias, Niravkumar Patel, Peter Gehlbach, Farshid Alambeigi, Iulian Iordachita
{"title":"FBG-based Kalman Filtering and Control of Tool Insertion Depth For Safe Robot-assisted Vitrectomy.","authors":"Ali Ebrahimi, Muller Urias, Niravkumar Patel, Peter Gehlbach, Farshid Alambeigi, Iulian Iordachita","doi":"10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vitrectomy is that portion of retinal surgery in which the vitreous gel is removed either as a definitive treatment or to provide direct tool access to the retina. This procedure should be conducted prior to several eye surgeries in order to provide better access to the eyeball posterior. It is a relatively repeatable and straight forward procedure that lends itself to robotic assistance or potentially autonomous performance if tool contact with critical structures can be avoided. One of the detrimental incidences that can occur during the robot-assisted vitrectomy is when the robot penetrates the tool more than allowed boundaries into the eyeball toward retina. In this paper, we provide filtering and control to guide instrument insertion depth in order to avoid tool-to-retina contact. For this purpose, first the tool insertion depth measurement is improved using a Kalman filtering (KF) algorithm. This improved measurement is then used in an adaptive control strategy by which the robot reduces the tool insertion depth based on a predefined and safe trajectory for it, when safe boundaries are overstepped. The performance of the insertion depth safety control system is then compared to one in which the insertion depth is not passed through a Kalman filter prior to being fed to the control system. Our results indicate that applying KF in the adaptive control of the robot enhances procedure safety and enables the robot to always keep the tool insertion depth under the safe levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39349007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex J Chiluisa, Floris J Van Rossum, Joshua B Gafford, Robert F Labadie, Robert J Webster, Loris Fichera
{"title":"Computational Optimization of Notch Spacing for a Transnasal Ear Endoscopy Continuum Robot.","authors":"Alex J Chiluisa, Floris J Van Rossum, Joshua B Gafford, Robert F Labadie, Robert J Webster, Loris Fichera","doi":"10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a computational framework to optimize the visual coverage attainable by a notched-tube continuum robotic endoscope inside the middle ear cavity. Our framework combines anatomically-accurate geometric (mesh) models of the middle ear with a sampling-based motion planning algorithm (RRT) and a ray-casting procedure to quantify what regions of the middle ear can be accessed and visualized by the endoscope. To demonstrate the use of this framework, we run computer simulations to investigate the effect of varying the distance between each pair of consecutive flexure elements (i.e., notches) in our robotic endoscope.</p>","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"2020 ","pages":"188-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312937","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10860149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Ebrahimi, Changyan He, Niravkumar Patel, Marin Kobilarov, Peter Gehlbach, Iulian Iordachita
{"title":"Sclera Force Control in Robot-assisted Eye Surgery: Adaptive Force Control vs. Auditory Feedback.","authors":"Ali Ebrahimi, Changyan He, Niravkumar Patel, Marin Kobilarov, Peter Gehlbach, Iulian Iordachita","doi":"10.1109/ISMR.2019.8710205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMR.2019.8710205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surgeon hand tremor limits human capability during microsurgical procedures such as those that treat the eye. In contrast, elimination of hand tremor through the introduction of microsurgical robots diminishes the surgeons tactile perception of useful and familiar tool-to-sclera forces. While the large mass and inertia of eye surgical robot prevents surgeon microtremor, loss of perception of small scleral forces may put the sclera at risk of injury. In this paper, we have applied and compared two different methods to assure the safety of sclera tissue during robot-assisted eye surgery. In the active control method, an adaptive force control strategy is implemented on the Steady-Hand Eye Robot in order to control the magnitude of scleral forces when they exceed safe boundaries. This autonomous force compensation is then compared to a passive force control method in which the surgeon performs manual adjustments in response to the provided audio feedback proportional to the magnitude of sclera force. A pilot study with three users indicate that the active control method is potentially more efficient.</p>","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"2019 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/ISMR.2019.8710205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37902343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Di Wu, Gang Li, Niravkumar Patel, Jiawen Yan, Reza Monfaredi, Kevin Cleary, Iulian Iordachita
{"title":"Remotely Actuated Needle Driving Device for MRI-Guided Percutaneous Interventions.","authors":"Di Wu, Gang Li, Niravkumar Patel, Jiawen Yan, Reza Monfaredi, Kevin Cleary, Iulian Iordachita","doi":"10.1109/ismr.2019.8710176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr.2019.8710176","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper we introduce a remotely actuated MRI-compatible needle driving device for pain injections in the lower back. This device is able to manipulate the needle inside the closed-bore MRI scanner under the control of the interventional radiologist inside both the scanner room and the console room. The device consists of a 2 degrees of freedom (DOF) needle driver and an actuation box. The 2-DOF needle driver is placed inside the scanner bore and driven by the actuation box settled at the end of the table through a beaded chain transmission. This novel remote actuation design could reduce the weight and profile of the needle driver that is mounted on the patient, as well as minimize the potential imaging noise introduced by the actuation electronics. The actuation box is designed to perform needle intervention in both manual and motorized fashion by utilizing a mode switch mechanism. A mechanical hard stop is also incorporated to improve the device's safety. The bench-top accuracy evaluation of the device demonstrated a small mean needle placement error (<i><</i> 1 mm) in a phantom study.</p>","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"2019 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/ismr.2019.8710176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38326367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on Structure Design and Simulation of Upper-Limb Assist Robot","authors":"Xiaolei Cao, Hui Li, Zhihong Jiang, Jianning Hua, Peng Sun, Rufen Wang","doi":"10.1109/IISR.2018.8535651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISR.2018.8535651","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"332 1","pages":"303-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74077843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trajectory Planning Based on Dual Torque Feedforward Control for Robot Astronaut Safe Movement on Space Station","authors":"Zhihong Jiang, Jiafeng Xu, Hui Li, Qiang Huang","doi":"10.1109/IISR.2018.8535762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISR.2018.8535762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"10 1","pages":"13-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78868497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feature extraction and optimisation for sleep apnea","authors":"W. Y. Leong","doi":"10.1109/ROMA.2014.7295888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMA.2014.7295888","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the feature extraction and optimization for sleep apnea is investigated. The electrical activity of the brain along the scalp suffered from sleep apnea using Electroencephalogram (EEG) is addressed. The correlation between the EEG signals was compared to detect the features of sleep apnea. The Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Bivaiiate were adopted in this project to evaluate the extracted EEG signals. The performance of EMD has greatly improved when the number of samples was decreasing. The segmentation error analyzed in the Event Related Potential (ERP) reflected the occurrence of apnea. The delta power associated to the body autonomous system and homeostasis regulation is due to the drop of oxygen when sleep apnea happened. Using Hilbert Huang Transform, there is energy waveform in low frequencies when an apnea has happened. These can be linked to the delta power which relates to the body autonomous system and homeostasis regulation. The EMD, EEMD and Bivariate methods were compared to show key features linked with apnea for analysis purposes.","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"18 4 1","pages":"200-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84614315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Jumahat, Constantinos Soutis, J. Mahmud, N. Ahmad
{"title":"Compressive properties of nanoclay/epoxy nanocomposites","authors":"A. Jumahat, Constantinos Soutis, J. Mahmud, N. Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/J.PROENG.2012.07.357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PROENG.2012.07.357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72029,"journal":{"name":"... International Symposium on Medical Robotics. International Symposium on Medical Robotics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1607-1613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91397533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}