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most citedAutomatic Tissue Traction Using Miniature Force-Sensing Forceps for Minimally Invasive Surgery

9 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2026

Reinforcement Learning for Follow-the-Leader Robotic Endoscopic Navigation via Synthetic Data

Sicong Gao, Chen Qian, Laurence Xian +3

Autonomous navigation is crucial for both medical and industrial endoscopic robots, enabling safe and efficient exploration of narrow tubular environments without continuous human…

cs.RO2025★ 7 cited

JammingSnake: A follow-the-leader continuum robot with variable stiffness based on fiber jamming

Chen Qian, Tangyou Liu, Liao Wu

Follow-the-leader (FTL) motion is essential for continuum robots operating in fragile and confined environments. It allows the robot to exert minimal force on its surroundings, red…

cs.RO2024

Effects of fiber number and density on fiber jamming: Towards follow-the-leader deployment of a continuum robot

Chen Qian, Tangyou Liu, Liao Wu

Fiber jamming modules (FJMs) offer flexibility and quick stiffness variation, making them suitable for follow-the-leader (FTL) motions in continuum robots, which is ideal for minim…

cs.RO2024

A Low-Cost Teleoperable Surgical Robot with a Macro-Micro Structure and a Continuum Tip for Open-Source Research

Lachlan Scott, Tangyou Liu, Liao Wu

Surgical robotic systems equipped with microscale, high-dexterity manipulators have shown promising results in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). One barrier to the widespread adopt…

cs.RO2024★ 9 cited

Automatic Tissue Traction Using Miniature Force-Sensing Forceps for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Tangyou Liu, Xiaoyi Wang, Jay Katupitiya +2

A common limitation of autonomous tissue manipulation in robotic minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is the absence of force sensing and control at the tool level. Recently, our team…