Simon P. DiMaio

TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus, system, and method for improving force and torque sensing and feedback to the surgeon performing a telerobotic surgery are provided, in one embodiment, a robotic surgical manipulator system, another embodiment, and a method for improved sensing of forces on a robotic instrument and/or manipulator arm are disclosed.

TL;DR: An experimental system for measuring planar tissue phantom deformation during needle insertions has been developed and is presented and a condensation technique is shown to achieve very fast interactive simulations.

TL;DR: A telerobotics research platform that provides complete access to all levels of control via open-source electronics and software, and is currently installed at 11 research institutions, with additional installations underway, thereby creating a research community around a commonopen-source hardware and software platform.

TL;DR: A robot-assisted system for medical diagnostic ultrasound has been developed and the visual servo controller used in this system is presented, which can be enabled to automatically compensate, through robot motions, unwanted motions in the plane of the ultrasound beam.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for a minimally invasive surgical system is described, which includes capturing and displaying camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switching out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlaying a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and rendering a pointer within the camera image for user interactive control.