Needle Insertion Simulation Heads: Shinichi Hirai Contact: Wang Lijuan Date: 2010 - 2013 Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: R-GIRO program 2012 - 2015 e-Health for Medicine, Nursing, and Care Associated lab/group: Chen Lab. (Dept. Computer Science) Tanaka Lab. (Dept.Computer Science) Lee Lab. (Dept.Computer Science)

Project Description

This research aims at dynamic simulation of needle insertion process in medical surgery. We will establish a method to simulate the needle insertion process without remeshing and a method to estimate physical parameters in the insertion.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Atsuo Mori	Graduated	Master of Eng.
	Wang Lijuan	Graduated
	Fuminori Komatu	Graduated

Publications

• Lijuan Wang, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, Modeling and Simulation of Friction Forces during Needle Insertion Using Local Constraint Method, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.4926-4932, 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385756, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 7-12, 2012
• Lijuan Wang and Shinichi Hirai, A Local Constraint Method for Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation, 2011 IEEE Int. Symp. on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011), pp.39-44, 10.1109/HAVE.2011.6088389, Yanshan Univ., Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China, Oct. 15-16, 2011

• Lijuan Wang, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, Modeling and Simulation of Friction Forces during Needle Insertion Using Local Constraint Method, 8th Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics (MPR2012), Fukuoka, Japan, Oct. 16-17, 2012

Notes

Needle insertion simulation (mp4 0.4MB)

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