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Total Citations
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About
Yanpei Huang is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of surgical robotics, human-robot collaboration, and multi-limb teleoperation. His research has fundamentally advanced the field of flexible endoscopic surgery by developing innovative foot-controlled robotic interfaces that enable surgeons to independently manage both surgical instruments and endoscopes—eliminating the coordination errors inherent in traditional assistant-dependent workflows. His most cited work, "Sewing up the Wounds" (2020, 52 citations), introduced a robotic suturing system for flexible endoscopy, addressing a critical clinical gap in perforation repair without requiring open surgery. A defining thread throughout Huang's research is the concept of "trimanipulation"—empowering a single operator to control three robotic limbs simultaneously using foot interfaces as a supernumerary appendage. His investigations into human performance under such conditions, alongside his development of subject-specific four-degree-of-freedom foot interfaces, have collectively garnered over 280 citations. More recently, Huang has pioneered human-robot collaborative approaches using shared control and fuzzy inference learning systems to reduce surgical workload and improve task performance. His body of work represents a compelling vision for the autonomous and semi-autonomous future of minimally invasive surgery.
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- 1Sewing up the Wounds: A Robotic Suturing System for Flexible Endoscopy52 citations · 2020
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- 6Performance Evaluation of a Foot Interface to Operate a Robot Arm26 citations · 2019
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