Papers
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Total Citations
128
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About
Delphine Bellot is a leading researcher in medical robotics, with a focus on force feedback control and motion compensation for robot-assisted surgery. Her work addresses the critical challenge of operating on moving organs, such as the heart or lungs, where physiological motions like breathing and heartbeat disrupt precision. Bellot’s major contributions include developing force control schemes that allow robots to compensate for these periodic motions in real time, enabling safer and more accurate minimally invasive procedures. Her 2007 paper on physiological motion compensation using force feedback control, with 50 citations, is a foundational work in this area. She has also pioneered techniques for robot-assisted laser osteotomy, where breathing motion compensation ensures precise bone cutting, and for beating heart surgery, where serial comanipulation allows surgeons to work with an active instrument that adapts to cardiac motion. Bellot’s research on passive force amplification and kinematically constrained manipulators further advances haptic feedback, giving surgeons an augmented sense of touch during delicate tasks. Her work, cited over 130 times, has significant implications for micro-surgery and other high-precision interventions, making her a key figure in the evolution of intelligent surgical robotics.
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- 2Towards an LMI Approach to Multicriteria Visual Servoing in Robotics19 citations · 2006
- 3A Passive Force Amplifier15 citations · 2008
- 4Breathing motion compensation for robot assisted laser osteotomy13 citations · 2010
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