Flexible needle steering using discrete steps

Demonstration video of flexible needle steering for applications in minimally-invasive interventions.
video
surgical robotics
mechatronics
robotics
Author

Antonio P L Bo

Published

July 30, 2013

This is the video accompanying the paper entitled “On the use of discrete steps in robot-aided flexible needle insertion” (IEEE EMBC 2013)1.

In the paper, a new method is designed and evaluated to enable sterring of beveled flexible needles in soft tissue. The experiments described in the paper were performed using a general-purpose robot manipulator, while future works focus on designing a dedicated mechatronic device.

Additional results and details may be found on the corresponding paper1.

References

1.
Geraldes, A. A., Marinho, M. M., Bernardes, M. C., Bo, A. P. L. & Borges, G. A. On the use of discrete steps in robot-aided flexible needle insertion. in 2013 35th annual international conference of the IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society (EMBC) vol. 4 4867–4870 (IEEE, 2013).