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Toward Learning Context-Dependent Tasks from Demonstration for Tendon-Driven Surgical Robots
Yixuan Huang, Michael Bentley, Tucker Hermans +1
Tendon-driven robots, a type of continuum robot, have the potential to reduce the invasiveness of surgery by enabling access to difficult-to-reach anatomical targets. In the future…
Planning Sensing Sequences for Subsurface 3D Tumor Mapping
Brian Y. Cho, Tucker Hermans, Alan Kuntz
Surgical automation has the potential to enable increased precision and reduce the per-patient workload of overburdened human surgeons. An effective automation system must be able…
Learning Visual Shape Control of Novel 3D Deformable Objects from Partial-View Point Clouds
Bao Thach, Brian Y. Cho, Alan Kuntz +1
If robots could reliably manipulate the shape of 3D deformable objects, they could find applications in fields ranging from home care to warehouse fulfillment to surgical assistanc…
DeformerNet: A Deep Learning Approach to 3D Deformable Object Manipulation
Bao Thach, Alan Kuntz, Tucker Hermans
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to 3D deformable object manipulation leveraging a deep neural network called DeformerNet. Controlling the shape of a 3D object requires a…
A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Roll Estimation for Needle Steering
Maxwell Emerson, James M. Ferguson, Tayfun Efe Ertop +8
Steerable needles are a promising technology for delivering targeted therapies in the body in a minimally-invasive fashion, as they can curve around anatomical obstacles and hone i…
Optimizing Hospital Room Layout to Reduce the Risk of Patient Falls
Sarvenaz Chaeibakhsh, Roya Sabbagh Novin, Tucker Hermans +2
Despite years of research into patient falls in hospital rooms, falls and related injuries remain a serious concern to patient safety. In this work, we formulate a gradient-free co…
Safer Motion Planning of Steerable Needles via a Shaft-to-Tissue Force Model
Michael Bentley, Caleb Rucker, Chakravarthy Reddy +2
Steerable needles are capable of accurately targeting difficult-to-reach clinical sites in the body. By bending around sensitive anatomical structures, steerable needles have the p…