Abstract: The use of robotics to enhance visualization and tissue manipulation capabilities contributes to the advancement of minimally invasive surgery. For the development of surgical robot manipulators, ...

Abstract: The size and limited dexterity of current surgical robotic systems are factors that limit their usefulness. To improve the level of assimilation of surgical robots in minimally invasive surgery ...

Abstract: A new kinematic design methodology is presented for optimization of spherical serial mechanisms. First, a new index, combining global manipulability and the uniformity of manipulability over the ...

Abstract: Reconstruction of complex braided river bathymetry is important for supporting hydrodynamic simulation and understanding river morphological processes. To our knowledge, existing methods generate and interpolate channel-fitted ...