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RAG-RUSS: A Retrieval-Augmented Robotic Ultrasound for Autonomous Carotid Examination

Dianye Huang, Ziping Cong, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang · 2026

Robotic ultrasound (US) has recently attracted increasing attention as a means to overcome the limitations of conventional US examinations, such as the strong operator dependence. However, the decisio…

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to …

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Comparative Analysis of Autonomous Robotic and Manual Techniques for Ultrasonic Sacral Osteotomy: A Preliminary Study

Daniyal Maroufi, Yash Kulkarni, Justin E. Bird, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, Farshid Alambeigi · 2026

In this paper, we introduce an autonomous Ultrasonic Sacral Osteotomy (USO) robotic system that integrates an ultrasonic osteotome with a seven-degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic manipulator guided by an…

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Doppler-Domain Respiratory Amplification for Semi-Static Human Occupancy Detection Using Low-Resolution SIMO FMCW Radar

Huy Trinh, Elliot Creager, George Shaker · 2026

Radar-based sensing is a promising privacy-preserving alternative to cameras and wearables in settings such as long-term care. Yet detecting quasi-static presence (lying, sitting, or standing with onl…

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AIA-UltraNeRF:Acoustic-Impedance-Aware Neural Radiance Field with Hash Encodings for Robotic Ultrasound Reconstruction and Localization

Shuai Zhang, Jingsong Mu, Cancan Zhao, Leiqi Tian, Zhijun Xing, Bo Ouyang, Xiang Li · 2025

Neural radiance field (NeRF) is a promising approach for reconstruction and new view synthesis. However, previous NeRF-based reconstruction methods overlook the critical role of acoustic impedance in …

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Breaking the Latency Barrier: Synergistic Perception and Control for High-Frequency 3D Ultrasound Servoing

Yizhao Qian, Yujie Zhu, Jiayuan Luo, Li Liu, Yixuan Yuan, Guochen Ning, Hongen Liao · 2025

Real-time tracking of dynamic targets amidst large-scale, high-frequency disturbances remains a critical unsolved challenge in Robotic Ultrasound Systems (RUSS), primarily due to the end-to-end latenc…

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A-SEE2.0: Active-Sensing End-Effector for Robotic Ultrasound Systems with Dense Contact Surface Perception Enabled Probe Orientation Adjustment

Yernar Zhetpissov, Xihan Ma, Kehan Yang, Haichong K. Zhang · 2025

Conventional freehand ultrasound (US) imaging is highly dependent on the skill of the operator, often leading to inconsistent results and increased physical demand on sonographers. Robotic Ultrasound …

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RUSSO: Robust Underwater SLAM with Sonar Optimization against Visual Degradation

Shu Pan, Ziyang Hong, Zhangrui Hu, Xiandong Xu, Wenjie Lu, Liang Hu · 2025

Visual degradation in underwater environments poses unique and significant challenges, which distinguishes underwater SLAM from popular vision-based SLAM on the ground. In this paper, we propose RUSSO…

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Gaze-Guided Robotic Vascular Ultrasound Leveraging Human Intention Estimation

Yuan Bi, Yang Su, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang · 2025

Medical ultrasound has been widely used to examine vascular structure in modern clinical practice. However, traditional ultrasound examination often faces challenges related to inter- and intra-operat…

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Simulation-based Approach for Fast Optimal Control of a Stefan Problem with Application to Cell Therapy

Prakitr Srisuma, George Barbastathis, Richard D. Braatz · 2024

This article describes a new, efficient way of finding control and state trajectories in optimal control problems by reformulation as a system of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). The optimal c…

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Imitation Learning for Robotic Assisted Ultrasound Examination of Deep Venous Thrombosis using Kernelized Movement Primitives

Diego Dall'Alba, Lorenzo Busellato, Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu, Zhuoqi Cheng, Inigo Iturrate · 2024

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a common yet potentially fatal condition, often leading to critical complications like pulmonary embolism. DVT is commonly diagnosed using Ultrasound (US) imaging, which …

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UltraGelBot: Autonomous Gel Dispenser for Robotic Ultrasound

Deepak Raina, Ziming Zhao, Richard Voyles, Juan Wachs, Subir K. Saha, S. H. Chandrashekhara · 2024

Telerobotic and Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Systems (RUS) help alleviate the need for operator-dependability in free-hand ultrasound examinations. However, the state-of-the-art RUSs still rely on a …

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Guiding the Last Centimeter: Novel Anatomy-Aware Probe Servoing for Standardized Imaging Plane Navigation in Robotic Lung Ultrasound

Xihan Ma, Mingjie Zeng, Jeffrey C. Hill, Beatrice Hoffmann, Ziming Zhang, Haichong K. Zhang · 2024

Navigating the ultrasound (US) probe to the standardized imaging plane (SIP) for image acquisition is a critical but operator-dependent task in conventional freehand diagnostic US. Robotic US systems …

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Following the Human Thread in Social Navigation

Luca Scofano, Alessio Sampieri, Tommaso Campari, Valentino Sacco, Indro Spinelli, Lamberto Ballan, Fabio Galasso · 2024

The success of collaboration between humans and robots in shared environments relies on the robot's real-time adaptation to human motion. Specifically, in Social Navigation, the agent should be close …

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LESEN: Label-Efficient deep learning for Multi-parametric MRI-based Visual Pathway Segmentation

Alou Diakite, Cheng Li, Lei Xie, Yuanjing Feng, Hua Han, Shanshan Wang ( Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China) · 2024

Recent research has shown the potential of deep learning in multi-parametric MRI-based visual pathway (VP) segmentation. However, obtaining labeled data for training is laborious and time-consuming. T…

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An introduction to radar Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) technology in ground-based radar systems

Jiangkun Gong, Jun Yan, Deyong Kong, Deren Li · 2023

This paper presents a brief examination of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) technology within ground-based radar systems. It offers a lucid comprehension of the ATR concept, delves into its historic…

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APP-RUSS: Automated Path Planning for Robotic Ultrasound System

David Liu, Jerome Charton, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li · 2023

Autonomous robotic ultrasound System (RUSS) has been extensively studied. However, fully automated ultrasound image acquisition is still challenging, partly due to the lack of study in combining two p…

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RoSSO: A High-Performance Python Package for Robotic Surveillance Strategy Optimization Using JAX

Yohan John, Connor Hughes, Gilberto Diaz-Garcia, Jason R. Marden, Francesco Bullo · 2023

To enable the computation of effective randomized patrol routes for single- or multi-robot teams, we present RoSSO, a Python package designed for solving Markov chain optimization problems. We exploit…

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Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives

Zhongliang Jiang, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Nassir Navab · 2023

Ultrasound (US) is one of the most widely used modalities for clinical intervention and diagnosis due to the merits of providing non-invasive, radiation-free, and real-time images. However, free-hand …

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Observer-based Event-triggered Boundary Control of the One-phase Stefan Problem

Bhathiya Rathnayake, Mamadou Diagne · 2022

This paper provides an observer-based event-triggered boundary control strategy for the one-phase Stefan problem using the position and velocity measurements of the moving interface. The infinite-dime…

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