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Publications, Micron: Intelligent Microsurgical Instruments

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Test of Tracing Performance with an Active Handheld Micromanipulator
  D. Choi, R. Sandoval Garcia, R. MacLachlan, L. Ho, L. Lobes, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August, 2007, pp. 3638-3641. [Abstract]
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• Feedforward Controller With Inverse Rate-Dependent Model for Piezoelectric Actuators in Trajectory-Tracking Applications
  W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 12, No. 2, April, 2007, pp. 134-142. [Abstract]
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• Nonlinear Regression Model of a Low-g MEMS Accelerometer
  W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, January, 2007, pp. 81-88. [Abstract]
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• Optical Tracking for Performance Testing of Microsurgical Instruments
  R. MacLachlan and C. Riviere
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Performance Envelope and Physiological Tremor in Microsurgery
  D. Ortega Ibanez, F. Perez Baquerin, D. Choi, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, April, 2006, pp. 121 - 122. [Abstract]
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• Flexure-based Manipulator for Active Handheld Microsurgical Instrument
  D. Choi and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), September, 2005, pp. 2325 - 2328. [Abstract]
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• Inverse Kinematic Model of Flexure-Based Microsurgical Manipulator
  J.G. Avedillo, D. Choi, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2005), September, 2005, pp. 5775 - 5777. [Abstract]
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• Kalman filtering for real-time orientation tracking of handheld microsurgical instrument
  W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '04), Vol. 3, October, 2004, pp. 2574 - 2580.
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• Active Tremor Compensation in Handheld Instrument for Microsurgery
  W. Ang
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Physical model of a MEMS accelerometer for low-g motion tracking applications
  W. Ang, S. Khoo, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 2, April, 2004, pp. 1345 - 1351. [Abstract]
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• Active tremor compensation in microsurgery
  W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. 4, 2004, pp. 2738 - 2741. [Abstract]
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• Applied force during vitreoretinal microsurgery with handheld instruments
  A. Jagtap and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004, pp. 2771 - 2773. [Abstract]
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• Toward Active Tremor Canceling in Handheld Microsurgical Instruments
  C. Riviere, W. Ang, and P. Khosla
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 15, No. 5, October, 2003, pp. 793-800. [Abstract]
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• Rate-dependent inverse hysteresis feedforward controller for microsurgical tool
  F. Alija-Garmón, W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  25th Annual Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September, 2003, pp. 3415 - 3418. [Abstract]
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• Tracking rotation and translation of laser microsurgical instruments
  R.M. Ortiz and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. 4, September, 2003, pp. 3411 - 3414. [Abstract]
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• Modeling Rate-dependent Hysteresis in Piezoelectric Actuator
  W. Ang, C. Riviere, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003, pp. 1975 - 1980. [Abstract]
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• Physiological tremor amplitude during vitreoretinal microsurgery
  S.P.N. Singh and C. Riviere
  Proceedings of the IEEE 28th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, April, 2002, pp. 171-172. [Abstract]
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• An intelligent hand-held microsurgical instrument for improved accuracy
  W. Ang, P. Khosla, and C. Riviere
  Proc. 23rd Annual Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October, 2001, pp. 3450-3453. [Abstract]
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• Design and implementation of active error canceling in hand-held microsurgical instrument
  W. Ang, C. Riviere, and P. Khosla
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 2, October, 2001, pp. 1106-1111. [Abstract]
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• Neural network methods for error canceling in human-machine manipulation
  W. Ang and C. Riviere
  Proc. 23rd Annual Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October, 2001, pp. 3462-3465. [Abstract]
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• Three-dimensional accuracy assessment of eye surgeons
  L. Hotraphinyo and C. Riviere
  Proc. 23rd Annual Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October, 2001, pp. 3458-3461. [Abstract]
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• An Active Hand-held Instrument for Enhanced Microsurgical Accuracy
  W. Ang, C. Riviere, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Springer, October, 2000, pp. 878-886. [Abstract]
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• A Study of Instrument Motion in Vitreoretinal Microsurgery
  C. Riviere and P. Jensen
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July, 2000. [Abstract]
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• Sensing Hand Tremor in a Vitreoretinal Microsurgical Instrument
  M. Gomez-Blanco, C. Riviere, and P. Khosla
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1999. [Abstract]
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• Adaptive canceling of physiological tremor for improved precision in microsurgery
  C. Riviere, R.S. Rader, and N.V. Thakor
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 7, July, 1998, pp. 839 - 846. [Abstract]
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• Error recognition for rehabilitation and microsurgery
  C. Riviere and P. Khosla
  Proc. Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference: Workshop on Face and Gesture Recognition and its Applications, 1998.

• Active handheld instrument for error compensation in microsurgery
  C. Riviere and P. Khosla
  Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing: Technical Conference on Microrobotics and Microsystem Fabrication, October, 1997, pp. 86-95.
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• Characteristics of hand motion of eye surgeons
  C. Riviere, R.S. Rader, and P. Khosla
  19th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. 4, October, 1997, pp. 1690 - 1693. [Abstract]
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• Augmenting the human-machine interface: improving manual accuracy
  C. Riviere and P. Khosla
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, April, 1997, pp. 3546 - 3550. [Abstract]
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• Adaptive Fourier modeling for quantification of tremor
  C. Riviere, S.G. Reich, and N.V. Thakor
  Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 74, No. 1, 1997, pp. 77-87.

• Modeling and canceling tremor in human-machine interfaces
  C. Riviere and N.V. Thakor
  IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 3, June, 1996, pp. 29 - 36. [Abstract]
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• Effects of age and disability on tracking tasks with a computer mouse: accuracy and linearity
  C. Riviere and N.V. Thakor
  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, February, 1996, pp. 6-15.

• Adaptive human-machine interface for persons with tremor
  C. Riviere and N.V. Thakor
  Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. 2, September, 1995, pp. 1193 - 1194. [Abstract]
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