Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey

By Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, D. C. Rucker, Howie Choset. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2015

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Ocean Engineering

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Real-time dynamics of soft and continuum robots based on Cosserat rod models (2019, background): “Slender elastic objects are becoming increasingly prevalent in robotics, e.g. in the study of soft (Rus and Tolley, 2015) and continuum (Burgner-Kahrs et al., 2015) manipulators, and in interactions with objects such as ropes, sutures, needles, and catheters (Tang et al., 2010).”
The role of Information and Communication Technologies in healthcare: taxonomies, perspectives, and challenges (2018, background): “[41] describe the state of the art in robot manipulators and systems intended for application to interventional medicine.”
Automatic Instrument Segmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery Using Deep Learning (2018, background): “Thus far, the most widespread surgical system is the da Vinci robot, which has already proved its favor via remote controlled laparoscopic surgery in gynecology, urology, and general surgery [3].”
Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities (2016, background): “For example, in the biomedical field, surgical instruments are an ideal application for soft robotics (55), and soft robotics is finding applications in rehabilitation (56) and assistance (57–59).”
Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots (2019, background): “To cope with the substantial friction experienced while navigating highly unstructured environments (5, 32), we grew hydrogel skin (33), a thin (10 to 25 m) layer of hydrated cross-linked polymers, onto the robot’s surface.”
Model-Based Control of Soft Robots: A Survey of the State of the Art and Open Challenges (2021, background): “This is for example the case of lightweight continuum medical devices [161], [162].”
A Survey on Information and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomies, Perspectives, and Challenges (2019, background): “The subfield of continuum robotics [285] researches tools and technologies (currently focused on surgery) that can be likely adopted also for machine inspection and repair.”