Publications Show by Date


First-Order XPBD

First-Order Position Based Simulation of Deformable Concentric-Tube Robots Interacting with Tissue
Samuel Tobin; Yufei Wu; Fei Liu; Caleb Rucker
Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR), 2025
Paper

Tracking-in-the-Loop Control

Stable Tracking-in-the-Loop Control of Cable-Driven Surgical Manipulators under Erroneous Kinematic Chains
Neelay Joglekar; Fei Liu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
arXiv, 2025
PDF

Autonomous Image-to-Grasp

Autonomous Image-to-Grasp Robotic Suturing Using Reliability-Driven Suture Thread Reconstruction
Neelay Joglekar; Fei Liu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), 2025
Paper

AutoPeel

AutoPeel: Adhesion-aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization For Robotic Wound Care
Xiao Liang; Youcheng Zhang; Fei Liu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
(Best Paper Award Finalist)
Paper

MEDiC

MEDiC: Autonomous Surgical Robotic Assistance to Maximizing Exposure for Dissection and Cautery
Xiao Liang; Chung-Pang Wang; Nikhil Uday Shinde; Fei Liu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Paper

ISMR: First-Order XPBD

Efficient Steady-State Tissue Simulation for Surgical Robotics: A First-Order Position-Based Method
Samuel Tobin; Yufei Wu; Fei Liu; Caleb Rucker
International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2025
Paper

TP_GMM_2025_ICRA_Workshop

Probabilistic Task Parameterization of Tool-Tissue Interaction via Sparse Landmarks Tracking in Robotic Surgery
Yiting Wang; Yunxin Fan; Fei Liu
ICRA'25 Workshop of 3rd Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging, 2025
PDF

HumanRobotAlign_ICRA_2025_Workshop

Toward Aligning Human and Robot Actions via Multi-Modal Demonstration Learning
Azizul Zahid; Jie Fan; Farong Wang; Ashton Dy; Sai Swaminathan; Fei Liu
ICRA'25 Workshop of Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data and Large Models, 2025
PDF

SuPerPM

SuPerPM: A Surgical Perception Framework Based on Deep Point Matching Learned from Physical Constrained Simulation Data
Shan Lin; Albert J. Miao; Ali Alabiad; Fei Liu; Kaiyuan Wang; Jingpei Lu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
PDF

Real-to-Sim Patent

Real-to-simulation Matching of Deformable Soft Tissue and Other Objects with Position-based Dynamics for Robot Control
Fei Liu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
US Patent US20240157559A1, 2024
Patent

Robust Tool Tracking

Robust Surgical Tool Tracking with Pixel-based Probabilities for Projected Geometric Primitives
Christopher D'Ambrosia; Florian Richter; Zih-Yun Chiu; Nikhil Uday Shinde; Fei Liu; Henrik Christensen; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Paper

Autonomous Cloth Manipulation

Achieving Autonomous Cloth Manipulation with Optimal Control via Differentiable Physics-Aware Regularization and Safety Constraints
Yutong Zhang *; Fei Liu *; Xiao Liang; Michael Yip
(*: equal contribution.)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Paper

Real-to-Sim

Real-to-Sim Deformable Object Manipulation: Optimizing Physics Models with Residual Mappings for Robotic Surgery
Xiao Liang *; Fei Liu *; Yutong Zhang; Yuelei Li; Shan Lin; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
(*: equal contribution.)
Paper

JIGGLE

JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
Nikhil Uday Shinde; Xiao Liang; Fei Liu; Yutong Zhang; Florian Richter; Sylvia Herbert; Michael Yip
Robotics: Science and System (RSS), 2024
(Best Paper Award at 5th Workshop: Reflections on Representations and Manipulating Deformable Objects @ ICRA2025)
Paper

ORRN

ORRN: An ODE-Based Recursive Registration Network for Deformable Respiratory Motion Estimation With Lung 4DCT Images
Xiao Liang; Shan Lin; Fei Liu; Dimitri Schreiber; Michael Yip
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (T-BME), 2023
Paper

ORRN

Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Rope-Like Objects Using Differentiable Compliant Position-Based Dynamics
Fei Liu *; Entong Su *; Jingpei Lu; Mingen Li; Michael Yip
(*: equal contribution.)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), 2023
Paper

Image-based Pose Estimation

Image-based Pose Estimation and Shape Reconstruction for Robot Manipulators and Soft, Continuum Robots via Differentiable Rendering
Jingpei Lu *; Fei Liu *; Cédric Girerd; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
(*: equal contribution.)
Paper

Suture Thread Spline Reconstruction

Suture Thread Spline Reconstruction from Endoscopic Images for Robotic Surgery with Reliability-driven Keypoint Detection
Neelay Joglekar; Fei Liu; Ryan Orosco; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
Paper

Real-to-Sim Registration

Real-to-Sim Registration of Deformable Soft Tissue with Position-Based Dynamics for Surgical Robot Autonomy
Fei Liu *; Zihan Li *; Yunhai Han; Jingpei Lu; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
(*: equal contribution.)
Paper

Real-to-Sim Registration

Model-Predictive Control of Blood Suction for Surgical Hemostasis using Differentiable Fluid Simulations
Jingbin Huang *; Fei Liu *; Florian Richter; Michael Yip
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
(*: equal contribution.)
Paper

AutoBloodSuction

Autonomous Robotic Suction to Clear the Surgical Field for Hemostasis Using Image-Based Blood Flow Detection
Florian Richter; Shihao Shen; Fei Liu; Jingbin Huang; Emily K. Funk; Ryan Orosco; Michael Yip
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), 2021
(Best Paper Award Finalist at ICRA'22)
Paper

Review of Advanced Medical Telerobots

Review of Advanced Medical Telerobots
Sarmad Mehrdad * Fei Liu *; Minh Tu Pham; Arnaud Lelevé; S. Farokh Atashzar
Applied Science, 2021
(*: equal contribution.)
Paper

2D Surgical Simulation

Dynamically Constrained Motion Planning Networks for Non-Holonomic Robots
Jacob J. Johnson; Linjun Li; Fei Liu; Ahmed H. Qureshi; Michael Yip
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
Paper

2D Surgical Simulation

A 2D Surgical Simulation Framework for Tool-Tissue Interaction
Yunhai Han; Fei Liu; Michael Yip
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, 2020
Paper

Energy-based Haptic Training

An Energy-Based Approach for n-DOF Passive Dual-User Haptic Training Systems
Fei Liu; Angel Ricardo Licona; Arnaud Lelevé; Damien Eberard; Minh Tu Pham; Tanneguy Redarce
Robotica, 2019
Paper

HapticsinMedicine_2019_Springer

Applications of Haptics in Medicine
Angel Ricardo Licona; Fei Liu; David Pinzon; Ali Torabi; Pierre Boulanger; Arnaud Lelevé; Richard Moreau; Minh Tu Pham; Mahdi Tavakoli
Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life, 2019
Paper

CollaborativeHaptic_2019_ICMCE

Collaborative Hands-on Training on Haptic Simulators
Angel Ricardo Licona; Fei Liu; Arnaud Lelevé; Minh Tu Pham;
ICVARS '19: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations, 2019
Paper

EnergyBasedHaptic_IROS_2016

An Energy Based Approach for Passive Dual-user Haptic Training Systems
Fei Liu; Arnaud Lelevé; Damien Eberard; Tanneguy Redarce
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016
Paper

DualUser_AAA_2015_MESROB

A Dual-User Teleoperation System with Adaptive Authority Adjustment for Haptic Training
Fei Liu; Arnaud Lelevé; Damien Eberard; Tanneguy Redarce
New Trends in Medical and Service Robots: Human Centered Analysis, Control and Design (MESROB), 2016
Paper

DualUser_OAA_2015_EMBC

A Dual-user Teleoperation System with Online Authority Adjustment for Haptic Training
Fei Liu; Arnaud Lelevé; Damien Eberard; Tanneguy Redarce
37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015
Paper

Fei_DualUser_Thesis_2016

A Dual-user Teleoperation System with Online Authority Adjustment for Haptic Training
Fei Liu
PHD Thesis, INSA de Lyon, University of Lyon, France, 2016
Thesis