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Ron Alterovitz is a researcher affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans engineering and computer science, with a strong focus on biomedical engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, and control and systems engineering among other subfields.

The scientific contributions of Ron Alterovitz include extensive research in the domains of soft robotics and applications, robotic path planning algorithms, and robotics and sensor-based localization. Additional topics covered in their work are robot manipulation and learning, modular robots and swarm intelligence, augmented reality applications, and robotic mechanisms and dynamics.

Alterovitz has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Mengyu Fu, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster, Inbar Fried, and Janine Hoelscher. This network of collaborators reflects an interdisciplinary approach in robotics and medical robotics research.

Their scholarly output has been published in prominent venues, such as UNC Libraries, arXiv (Cornell University), The International Journal of Robotics Research, Science Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics.

Recent papers highlight various aspects of robotics and medical applications including:

  • "Robust navigation of a soft growing robot by exploiting contact with the environment," 2020, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • "Autonomous medical needle steering in vivo," 2023, Science Robotics
  • "Learning the Complete Shape of Concentric Tube Robots," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
  • "Efficient Approximate Value Iteration for Continuous Gaussian POMDPs," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Backward Planning for a Multi-Stage Steerable Needle Lung Robot," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Best Publications

  • Motion planning under uncertainty using iterative local optimization in belief space

    Jur Van Den Berg;Sachin Patil;Ron Alterovitz

  • Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles

    R. Alterovitz;K. Goldberg;A. Okamura

  • The stochastic motion roadmap: A sampling framework for planning with Markov motion uncertainty

    Ron Alterovitz;Thierry Siméon;Kenneth Y. Goldberg

  • Motion Planning Under Uncertainty for Image-guided Medical Needle Steering:

    Ron Alterovitz;Michael S. Branicky;Kenneth Y. Goldberg

  • Robot-Assisted Needle Steering

    K. B. Reed;A. Majewicz;V. Kallem;R. Alterovitz

  • Distal bevel-tip needle control device and algorithm

    Robert J. Webster;Allison M. Okamura;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory Chirikjian

  • Interactive simulation of surgical needle insertion and steering

    Nuttapong Chentanez;Ron Alterovitz;Daniel Ritchie;Lita Cho

  • Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality.

    Yochanan E. Bigman;Adam Waytz;Ron Alterovitz;Kurt Gray

  • Needle Steering in 3-D Via Rapid Replanning

    Sachin Patil;Jessica Burgner;Robert J. Webster;Ron Alterovitz

  • Steering flexible needles under Markov motion uncertainty

    R. Alterovitz;A. Lim;K. Goldberg;G.S. Chirikjian

  • Needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation in human tissues: simulation and sensitivity analysis

    R. Alterovitz;K. Goldberg;J. Pouliot;R. Taschereau

  • Screw-based motion planning for bevel-tip flexible needles in 3D environments with obstacles

    V. Duindam;R. Alterovitz;S. Sastry;K. Goldberg

  • Needle path planning and steering in a three-dimensional non-static environment using two-dimensional ultrasound images

    Gustaaf J. Vrooijink;Momen Abayazid;Sachin Patil;Ron Alterovitz

  • Robotic Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, Planning, and Image Guidance

    Noah J. Cowan;Ken Goldberg;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Gabor Fichtinger

  • Motion planning for steerable needles in 3D environments with obstacles using rapidly-exploring Random Trees and backchaining

    Jijie Xu;V. Duindam;R. Alterovitz;K. Goldberg

  • Three-dimensional Motion Planning Algorithms for Steerable Needles Using Inverse Kinematics

    Vincent Duindam;Jijie Xu;Ron Alterovitz;Shankar Sastry

  • Estimating probability of collision for safe motion planning under Gaussian motion and sensing uncertainty

    Sachin Patil;Jur van den Berg;Ron Alterovitz

  • Simulating needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation for prostate brachytherapy.

    Ron Alterovitz;Jean Pouliot;Richard Taschereau;I-Chow Joe Hsu

  • Interactive motion planning for steerable needles in 3D environments with obstacles

    Sachin Patil;Ron Alterovitz

  • Registration of MR prostate images with biomechanical modeling and nonlinear parameter estimation

    Ron Alterovitz;Ken Goldberg;Jean Pouliot;I-Chow Joe Hsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg University of California, Berkeley
Robert J. Webster
Robert J. Webster Vanderbilt University
Sachin Patil
Sachin Patil University of California, Berkeley
Allison M. Okamura
Allison M. Okamura Stanford University
Sarthak Misra
Sarthak Misra University of Groningen
Jur van den Berg
Jur van den Berg University of Utah
Wen Sun
Wen Sun Cornell University
Noah J. Cowan
Noah J. Cowan Johns Hopkins University
Kris Hauser
Kris Hauser Duke University
Stephen M. Pizer
Stephen M. Pizer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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