Publications
- A. Z. Taddese, P. R. Slawinski, M. Pirotta, E. De Momi, P. Valdastri, and K. L. Obstein, “Enhanced Real-Time Pose Estimation for Closed Loop Robotic Manipulation of Magnetically Actuated Capsule Endoscopes,” Int. J. Rob. Res., no. under review, 2018.
- P. R. Slawinski, A. Z. Taddese, K. B. Musto, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Autonomous Retroflexion of a Magnetic Flexible Endoscope,” IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 1352–1359, Jul. 2017. 10.1109/LRA.2017.2668459
- S. Sarker, P. R. Slawinski, A. Z. Taddese, K. B. Musto, P. Valdastri, and K. L. Obstein, “Mo1962 The First Autonomously Controlled Capsule Robot for Colon Exploration,” Gastrointest. Endosc., vol. 85, no. 5, p. AB496, May 2017. 10.1016/j.gie.2017.03.1149
- P. R. Slawinski, C. T. Garcia, A. Z. Taddese, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Towards Recovering a Lost Degree of Freedom in Magnet-Driven Robotic Capsule Endoscopy,” in 2017 Des. Med. Devices Conf., 2017, p. V001T08A011. 10.1115/DMD2017-3391
- A. Z. Taddese, P. R. Slawinski, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Nonholonomic closed-loop velocity control of a soft-tethered magnetic capsule endoscope,” in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Syst., Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 1139–1144. 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759192
- A. Z. Taddese, P. R. Slawinski, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Closed Loop Control of a Tethered Magnetic Capsule Endoscope,” in Robot. Sci. Syst. XII, 2016, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 380. 10.15607/RSS.2016.XII.018
- C. Di Natali, M. Beccani, N. Simaan, and P. Valdastri, “Jacobian-Based Iterative Method for Magnetic Localization in Robotic Capsule Endoscopy,” IEEE Trans. Robot., vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 327–338, Apr. 2016. 10.1109/TRO.2016.2522433
- H. Tunc, A. Taddese, P. Volgyesi, J. Sallai, P. Valdastri, and A. Ledeczi, “Web-based integrated development environment for event-driven applications,” SoutheastCon 2016, pp. 1–8, 2016. 10.1109/SECON.2016.7506646
- A. Z. Taddese, P. R. Slawinski, K. B. Musto, P. Valdastri, and K. L. Obstein, “Mo2092 Evaluation of a Novel Magnetic Actuated Capsule Endoscope for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Preliminary Feasibility Study,” Gastroenterology, vol. 150, no. 4, p. S830, 2016. 10.1016/S0016-5085(16)32809-8
- P. R. Slawinski, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Emerging issues and future developments in capsule endoscopy,” Tech. Gastrointest. Endosc., vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 40–46, 2015. 10.1016/j.tgie.2015.02.006
- R. Caprara et al., “A Platform for Gastric Cancer Screening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1324–1332, 2015. 10.1109/TBME.2014.2386309
- P. R. Slawinski, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “Capsule endoscopy of the future: What’s on the horizon?,” World J. Gastroenterol., vol. 21, no. 37, pp. 10528–10541, 2015. 10.3748/wjg.v21.i37.10528
- C. Di Natali, J. Buzzi, N. Garbin, M. Beccani, and P. Valdastri, “Closed-Loop Control of Local Magnetic Actuation for Robotic Surgical Instruments,” IEEE Trans. Robot., vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 143–156, 2015. 10.1109/TRO.2014.2382851
- M. Beccani et al., “Component based design of a drug delivery capsule robot,” Sensors Actuators, A Phys., pp. 1–9, 2015. 10.1016/j.sna.2016.04.035
- M. Beccani et al., “Systematic design of medical capsule robots,” IEEE Des. Test, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 98–108, 2015. 10.1109/MDAT.2015.2459591
- A. Taddese, M. Beccani, E. Susilo, P. Völgyesi, Á. Lédeczi, and P. Valdastri, “Toward rapid prototyping of miniature Capsule Robots,” in Proc. - IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom., 2015, vol. 2015-June, no. June, pp. 4704–4709. 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139852
- P. V. N. T. Hoang, C. S. Bell, “Utilization of LEDs in a Communication Protocol for Endoscopic Submarine Capsules,” Young Sci. J., vol. 4, p. 9, 2015.
- M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, C. E. Benjamin, C. S. Bell, N. E. Hall, and P. Valdastri, “Wireless tissue palpation: Head characterization to improve tumor detection in soft tissue,” Sensors Actuators A Phys., vol. 223, pp. 180–190, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2014.12.022
- B. Marco, S. Ekawahyu, N. Christian Di, and V. Pietro, “SMAC — A Modular Open Source Architecture for Medical Capsule Robots,” Int. J. Adv. Robot. Syst., vol. 11, no. 11, p. 188, Nov. 2014. 10.5772/59505
- C. Di Natali, M. Beccani, K. L. Obstein, and P. Valdastri, “A wireless platform for in vivo measurement of resistance properties of the gastrointestinal tract,” Physiol. Meas., vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1197–1214, Jul. 2014. 10.1088/0967-3334/35/7/1197
- T. Pasricha et al., “Controlled colonic insufflation by a remotely triggered capsule for improved mucosal visualization,” Endoscopy, vol. 46, no. 07, pp. 614–618, May 2014. 10.1055/s-0034-1365497
- M. Beccani, C. Di Natali, L. J. Sliker, J. A. Schoen, M. E. Rentschler, and P. Valdastri, “Wireless Tissue Palpation for Intraoperative Detection of Lumps in the Soft Tissue,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 353–361, Feb. 2014. 10.1109/TBME.2013.2279337
- A. Taddese, P. Völgyesi, Á. Lédeczi, M. Beccani, E. Susilo, and P. Valdastri, “A modular software architecture for miniature capsule robots based on TinyOS,” in Proc. 12th ACM Conf. Embed. Netw. Sens. Syst. - SenSys ’14, New York, New York, USA, 2014, vol. 430, pp. 352–353. 10.1145/2668332.2668363
- K. L. Obstein and P. Valdastri, “Advanced endoscopic technologies for colorectal cancer screening,” World J. Gastroenterol., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 431–439, 2013. 10.3748/wjg.v19.i4.431
- C. Di Natali, M. Beccani, and P. Valdastri, “Real-time pose detection for magnetic medical devices,” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 3524–3527, 2013. 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2240899
- P. Valdastri, M. Simi, and R. J. Webster, “Advanced Technologies for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy,” Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., vol. 14, no. 1. pp. 397–429, Jan-2012. 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071811-150006
- J. L. Toennies, G. Tortora, M. Simi, P. Valdastri, and R. J. Webster, “Swallowable medical devices for diagnosis and surgery: the state of the art,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part C J. Mech. Eng. Sci., vol. 224, no. 7, pp. 1397–1414, 2010. 10.1243/09544062JMES1879