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DASH: A da Vinci Adapter for Serial-link and Humanoid Robots as an Accessible Platform for Surgical Robotics Research
Sara Wickenhiser, Junrong Zhou, Zekai Liang +3
Robotic minimally invasive surgery offers well-documented clinical benefits, but the cost and infrastructure requirements of purpose-built platforms limit access in rural and lower…
Robust Surgical Robotic Instrument Tracking via Sequential Multi-Cue Fusion and Sim-to-Real Self-Training
Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +1
Efficient and robust tracking of surgical robotic instruments is important for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, yet remains challenging due to the complexity of surgical…
In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
Zekai Liang, Nikita Thareja, Peihan Zhang +7
Recent advances in actuation, control and learning have rapidly pushed humanoid robots from a distant vision towards near-term real-world deployment. Healthcare is a particularly p…
Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +1
Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery. Although vision-based robot pose estimation has enabled marker…
Efficient Surgical Robotic Instrument Pose Reconstruction in Real World Conditions Using Unified Feature Detection
Zekai Liang, Kazuya Miyata, Xiao Liang +2
Accurate camera-to-robot calibration is essential for any vision-based robotic control system and especially critical in minimally invasive surgical robots, where instruments condu…
LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy
Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar +7
Robotic laparoscopic surgery has gained increasing attention in recent years for its potential to deliver more efficient and precise minimally invasive procedures. However, adoptio…
Differentiable Rendering-based Pose Estimation for Surgical Robotic Instruments
Zekai Liang, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter +1
Robot pose estimation is a challenging and crucial task for vision-based surgical robotic automation. Typical robotic calibration approaches, however, are not applicable to surgica…
CtRNet-X: Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation in Real-world Conditions Using a Single Camera
Jingpei Lu, Zekai Liang, Tristin Xie +4
Camera-to-robot calibration is crucial for vision-based robot control and requires effort to make it accurate. Recent advancements in markerless pose estimation methods have elimin…