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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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1175
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474

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Overview

Nabil Simaan is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research spans engineering and medicine with a particular focus on biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, neurology, and surgery.

The main topics of Simaan's work include soft robotics and applications, robot manipulation and learning, teleoperation and haptic systems, surgical simulation and training, drilling and well engineering, micro and nano robotics, and advanced surface polishing techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Simaan's work include arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and The International Journal of Robotics Research.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by or associated with collaborators of Simaan include:

  • "A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020" (2021), Science Robotics
  • "Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions" (2022), Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots" (2020), Soft Robotics
  • "Joint-level force sensing for indirect hybrid force/position control of continuum robots with friction" (2020), The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • "Surgical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine [Scanning the Issue]" (2022), Proceedings of the IEEE

Simaan frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Garrison L. H. Johnston, Andrew L. Orekhov, Neel Shihora, Jared Lawson, and Elan Z. Ahronovich.

Best Publications

  • A dexterous system for laryngeal surgery

    N. Simaan;R. Taylor;P. Flint

  • A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020.

    Pierre E. Dupont;Bradley J. Nelson;Michael Goldfarb;Blake Hannaford

  • Design and Integration of a Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat

    Nabil Simaan;Kai Xu;Wei Wei;Ankur Kapoor

  • An Investigation of the Intrinsic Force Sensing Capabilities of Continuum Robots

    Kai Xu;N. Simaan

  • Systems and methods for safe compliant insertion and hybrid force/motion telemanipulation of continuum robots

    Nabil Simaan;Andrea Bajo;James L. Netterville;C. Gaelyn Garrett

  • Devices and systems for minimally invasive surgery of the throat and other portions of mammalian body

    Nabil Simaan;Russell H. Taylor;Paul Flint;Gregory Chirikjian

  • Continuum Robots for Medical Interventions

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  • Analytic Formulation for Kinematics, Statics, and Shape Restoration of Multibackbone Continuum Robots Via Elliptic Integrals

    Kai Xu;Nabil Simaan

  • Snake-Like Units Using Flexible Backbones and Actuation Redundancy for Enhanced Miniaturization

    N. Simaan

  • Design and Coordination Kinematics of an Insertable Robotic Effectors Platform for Single-Port Access Surgery

    Jienan Ding;Roger E. Goldman;Kai Xu;Peter K. Allen

  • System design of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery

    Kai Xu;Roger E. Goldman;Jienan Ding;Peter K. Allen

  • Actuation compensation for flexible surgical snake-like robots with redundant remote actuation

    Kai Xu;N. Simaan

  • Hybrid motion/force control of multi-backbone continuum robots

    Andrea Bajo;Nabil Simaan

  • Medical Technologies and Challenges of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Intervention and Diagnostics

    Nabil Simaan;Rashid M. Yasin;Long Wang

  • High Dexterity Snake-Like Robotic Slaves for Minimally Invasive Telesurgery of the Upper Airway

    Nabil Simaan;Russell H. Taylor;Paul Flint

  • Design, simulation and evaluation of kinematic alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Surgery

    Jienan Ding;Kai Xu;Roger Goldman;Peter Allen

  • Intrinsic Wrench Estimation and Its Performance Index for Multisegment Continuum Robots

    Kai Xu;Nabil Simaan

  • Kinematics-Based Detection and Localization of Contacts Along Multisegment Continuum Robots

    A. Bajo;N. Simaan

  • Compliant Motion Control for Multisegment Continuum Robots With Actuation Force Sensing

    Roger E. Goldman;Andrea Bajo;Nabil Simaan

  • Integration and preliminary evaluation of an Insertable Robotic Effectors Platform for Single Port Access Surgery

    Andrea Bajo;Roger E. Goldman;Long Wang;Dennis Fowler

  • A Dexterous System for Laryngeal Surgery Multi-Backbone Bending Snake-like Slaves for Teleoperated Dexterous Surgical Tool Manipulation

    Nabil Simaan;Hopkins University-ERC-CISST;Paul Flint

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell H. Taylor
Russell H. Taylor Johns Hopkins University
Y. Lawrence Yao
Y. Lawrence Yao Columbia University
Howie Choset
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University
David J. Brenner
David J. Brenner Columbia University
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware
Peter K. Allen
Peter K. Allen Columbia University
Moshe Shoham
Moshe Shoham Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Pietro Valdastri
Pietro Valdastri University of Leeds
Peter Kazanzides
Peter Kazanzides Johns Hopkins University
Sally A. Amundson
Sally A. Amundson Columbia University

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