Selected Papers from MESROB2025: 9th IFToMM International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics

A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Robotics and Service Robotics".

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Izmir Insitute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
Interests: medical robotics; synthesis of spatial mechanisms; fault-tolerant system design

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Dear Colleagues,

The aim of the MESROB Workshop is to provide an international platform for researchers, engineers, and PhD students involved in the general field of medical and service robotics to exchange the latest research results and exchange views on future research directions in these areas. From the point of view of research and applications, medical and service robotics are enjoying a growing interest at the same time as the obvious growth of the market.

This Special Issue aims at exhibiting the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas in the areas of “Medical and Service Robotics”. The issue will contain, after a strict peer-review process, revised and extended versions of selected conference papers that were presented at the 9th IFToMM International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics (MESROB2025), with the objective of presenting cutting-edge contributions worthy of publication in an archival journal.

Prof. Dr. Med Amine Laribi
Prof. Dr. Mehmet İsmet Can Dede
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Keywords

  • medical and service robotics
  • human-robot interaction
  • assistance devices
  • collaborative robots
  • rehabilitation robots
  • healthcare robots
  • human assistance robots

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Article
A Hybrid Control Scheme for Backdriving a Surgical Robot About a Pivot Point
by Mehmet İsmet Can Dede, Emir Mobedi and Mehmet Fırat Deniz
Robotics 2025, 14(10), 144; https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14100144 - 16 Oct 2025
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Abstract
An incision point acts as the pivot point when a minimally invasive surgery procedure is applied. The assistive robot arms employed for such operation must have the capability to perform a remote center of motion (RCM) at this pivot point. Other than designing [...] Read more.
An incision point acts as the pivot point when a minimally invasive surgery procedure is applied. The assistive robot arms employed for such operation must have the capability to perform a remote center of motion (RCM) at this pivot point. Other than designing RCM mechanisms, a common practice is to use a readily available spatial serial robot arm and control it to impose this RCM constraint. When this assistive robot is required to be backdriven by the surgeon, the relation between the interaction forces/moments and the motion with RCM constraint becomes challenging. This paper carefully formulates a hybrid position/force control scheme for this relationship when any readily available robot arm that is coupled with a force/torque sensor is used for an RCM task. The verification of the formulation is carried out on a readily available robot arm by implementing the additional constraints that are derived from a surgical robot application. Full article
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