Kai Xu

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper carried out a comprehensive analysis of their spatio-temporal variation based on multiple drought indices from a climatic perspective, and developed a 3-dimensional clustering method is developed to identify drought events in China from 1961 to 2012 based on the 0.25° gridded indices of SPI3 (3 months Standardized Precipitation Index), RDI3 ( 3 months Reconnaissance Drought Index) and SPEI3(3 months SSPEI Index).

TL;DR: Experimental results validate the ability of the newly constructed telerobotic system for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) of the throat through experiments of suturing and knot tying in confined spaces.

TL;DR: The presented study allows force sensing in challenging environments where placing force sensors at the distal end of a robot is not possible due to limitations such as size and MRI compatibility.

TL;DR: In this article, a unified analytic formulation for kinematics, statics, and shape restoration of multiple-backbone continuum robots is presented, which allows the investigation of the effects of different external loads and actuation redundancy resolutions on the shape variations in these robots.

TL;DR: The clinical motivation, design considerations, kinematics, statics, and mechanical design of the IREP, a new insertable robotic end-effectors platform for single port access surgery, are presented.