Design and Control of Surgical Robots
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 810
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the mature application of surgical robots, as represented by the da Vinci robotic surgical systems, surgical robots have begun to disrupt traditional healthcare. More and more scholars and doctors are exploring how to implement various surgical procedures using robots. In this process, the combination and application of different surgical procedures with the structural design and control methods of robots remain the core issues that need to be solved in robotic surgery.
This Special Issue aims to collect and organize the literature on novel approaches, cases, and investigations concerning the “Design and Control of Surgical Robots”, especially on the robot's structure, morphology, sensing methods, interaction modes, and motion control under the condition of relying on corresponding diagnosis and treatment methods. The issue focuses on the application forms of surgical robots, such as laparoscopic surgery, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), vascular interventional surgery, puncture surgery, orthopedic surgery, etc. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Continuum robots;
- Concentric tube robots;
- Micro-nano surgical robots;
- Novel instrument design;
- Surgical robot modeling and control;
- Image-guided robot control;
- Data-driven control method;
- Haptic/Shape sensing method;
- Perception methods for biological tissue.
Dr. Yongzhuo Gao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- continuum robots
- concentric tube robots
- micro-nano surgical robots
- novel instrument design
- surgical robot modeling and control
- image-guided robot control
- data-driven control method
- haptic/shape sensing method
- perception methods for biological tissue
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