Following Surgical Trajectories with Concentric Tube Robots via Nearest-Neighbor Graphs

Sherdil Niyaz, Alan Kuntz, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz, Siddhartha Srinivasa

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Abstract

Concentric tube robots, or CTRs, are tentacle-like robots composed of precurved telescoping tubes (Fig. 1a) and are controlled by rotating and translating each individual tube [6]. Their dexterity and small diameter enable minimally-invasive surgery in constrained areas, such as accessing the pituitary gland via the sinuses. Unfortunately, their unintuitive kinematics make manually guiding the tip while also avoiding obstacles with the entire tentacle-like shape extremely difficult [19]. This motivates a need for new user interfaces and planning algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Pages3-13
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Volume11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics

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