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Dr. Wei Wei (graduated June 2010)

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Journal Papers

  1. Wei, W., Simaan, N., “Modeling, Force Sensing and Control of Flexible Cannulas for Micro-Stent Delivery,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, under review, 2010.
  2. Wei, W., Popplewell, C., Fine, H., Chang, S., Simaan, N., “Enabling Technology for Micro-Vascular Stenting in Ophthalmic Surgery,” accepted for publication to ASME Journal of Medical Devices (JMED), accepted in January 2010.
  3. Fine, H. F., Wei, W., Goldman, R. E., Popplewell, C., Chang S., Simaan, N., “Design, Performance, and Potential Applications of a Novel Dual-Arm Robot for Ophthalmic Surgery,” to be submitted to Retina, 2010.
  4. Wei, W., Popplewell, C., Fine, H. F., Chang, S., Simaan, N., “Enabling Technology for Microvascular Stenting in Ophthalmic Surgery,” ASME Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 014503(1-6), 2010.
  5. Wei, W., Simaan N., “Design of Planar Parallel Robots with Preloaded Flexures for Guaranteed Backlash Prevention,” ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 011012(1-10), 2010.
  6. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Ding. J., Rolant, T.J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Inroads towards Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery using Steerable Electrode Arrays”, accepted for publication in Otology  & Neurology special issue on Cochlear Implants, 2009.
  7. Simaan, N., Xu, K., Wei Wei, Kapoor, A., Kazanzides, P., Flint, P., Taylor, R., “Design and Integration of a Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat,” accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) special issue on medical robotics, 2009. (First published online on published online on May 27th through IJRR OnlineFirst,  2009).
  8. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Roland, J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Optimal Path Planning for Robotic Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays in Cochlear Implant Surgery”, in ASME Journal on Medical Devices, Vol 3., No. 1, pp. 011001, 2009.
  9. Wei, W., Goldman, R., Fine, H., Chang, S., Simaan, N., Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Multi-Arm Robots Operating on Hollow Suspended OrgansIEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 25, No. 1, pp. 147-157, 2009.
  10. Wei, W. and Pu, C., 2002, “A Research of Arc Welding Inverter with High Stable Precision,” China Welding, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 151-155.

Conference Papers

  1. Wei, W., Fine, H. F., Chang, S., Simaan, N., “A Pilot Study on Using a Flexible Cannula Robot for Micro-Vascular Stenting,” Accepted by International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’10) Workshop, Alaska, USA, 2010.
  2. Fine, H. F., Wei, W., Goldman, R. E., Chang, S., Simaan, N., “Retinal Vascular Cannulation and Stent Deployment with a Novel Ophthalmic Microsurgical Robot,” American Academy of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, CA, Oct 2009.
  3. Wei, W., Goldman, R., Simaan, N., Fine, H., Chang, S., "Design and Theoretical Evaluation of Micro-Surgical Manipulators for Orbital Manipulation and Intraocular Dexterity,", International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3389-3395 , 2007.
  4. Kapoor, A., Xu, K., Wei, W., Simaan, N., Taylor, R., “Telemanipulation of Snake-Like Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the upper Airway”, MICCAI’2006 (9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention), presented at the workshop on medical robotics, 2006.
  5. Wei, W., Xu, K., Simaan, N., “A Compact Two-armed Slave Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat,” BioRob’2006 (The first IEEE / RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics), pp. 769-774, Pisa, Italy, 2006.
  6. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Roland, J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Path Planning and Workspace Determination for Robot-Assisted Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays for Cochlear Implant Surgery,” The 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’2008), pp. 692-700, 2008.
  7. Wei, W. and Zsombor-Murray, P., 2004, “Translational Parallel Manipulator Kinematics Using Algebraic and Projective Line Geometry Elements,” Proceedings of the 2004 CCToMM Symposium, 2004 CSME Forum, June 1-4, London, Ontario, Canada, pp. 44-52.

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