Vincent’s research videos

Doing scientific research is one thing, publishing and communicating the results is also very important. My scientific publications are listed here and we also created many video compilations in the different projects that I am involved in. Below is a more or less complete overview of the research videos (co-)created by me, my students and/or direct colleagues, during my research at Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Twente.

The embedded videos are now primarily hosted on YuJa. Some videos are also on my Vimeo channel (ad-free). My research group has a YouTube channel and I also have a YouTube channel myself.

Many compilations have music and/or voice-over. Most of these were composed/spoken by Tim de Man.

2024

ICRA40 video: Controlling an MR Safe Robot Arm with Six Pneumatic Stepper Motors using Eight Tubes

YuJa

Sunram 7 video

Presented by Lennard Marx at the BioRob 2024 conference in Heidelberg, Germany

YouTube / YuJa

Controlling motors using a reconfigurable grid

Developed by Jelle Wilbrink for his MSc thesis

YuJa

Motorized needle tool for ultrasound-guided breast biopsy

Developed by Benjamin Meijerink for his MSc thesis.

YuJa

2023

Coming soon

2022

Sunram 7 compilation

Presented by Harsh Ranjan at ICRA 2023 in Detroit, USA

YuJa / Vimeo

Absolute Position Detection in 7-Phase Sensorless Electric Stepper Motor

Presented at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan.

YuJa / Vimeo

Sunram 7 draft video

This robot is the 7th generation robotic system for MRI-guided breast biopsy. Main improvements include a novel motor design for better robustness and printability, and various calibration options.

YuJa / Vimeo

Pneumatic Turing Machine: Main compilation

Can you 3D print a Turing-complete computer which runs on pressurized air? Yes! Although the number of states and bits is somewhat limited in this prototype.

First demonstrated at European Robotic Forum 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The 4/2-way valve component can be downloaded at Printables. More components will be published later upon request.

YuJa / Vimeo

Pneumatic Turing Machine: Addition

Demonstrates calculation of 2+1, and 3+5. The numbers are not binary encoded, but specified by a consecutive number of 1’s followed by a 0.

(Supplementary video to the main Pneumatic Turing Machine compilation)

YuJa / Vimeo

Pneumatic Turing Machine: Busy Beaver

Demonstrates 2-state and 3-state Busy Beaver. These are special programs for a binary Turing machine which gives the maximum possible output given the number of available states.

(Supplementary video to the main Pneumatic Turing Machine compilation)

YuJa / Vimeo

2021

Multi-axis Electric Stepper Motor

The three output shafts are independently actuated by a single stator.

YuJa / Vimeo / YouTube

Six-axis pneumatic stepper motor

The motor is driven by four cylinders using only five pneumatic lines in total. Each of the six output shafts have a positioning accuracy of two steps. This is a consequence of the design with shared cylinders.

Paper
YuJa / Vimeo

Robot-Guided Translation of a Preoperative 3d Planning During Open-Vault Reconstruction of Craniosynostosis

Project by Anouck Pilon, Eva Koot, RĂ©mi van der Woude, Lisanne Venix. Supervised by Vincent Groenhuis et al.

Multidisciplinair project (MDO), as part of BSc Technical Medicine.

Link to essay abstract

YuJa / Vimeo

Next-gen in-vivo: early concepts

It shows a scale model of a cystoscope with camera, inertial unit, lights and dummy optical coherence tomography (OCT) sensor.

More information about the Next-gen in-vivo project can be read here.

YuJa / Vimeo

Image-guided Breast Biopsy of MRI-visible Lesions with a Hand-Mounted Motorised Needle Steering Tool

MSc project by Marta Lagomarsino, supervised by Vincent Groenhuis et al.

YuJa / Vimeo

2020

Control and design of 3D printed biopsy robot using mobile application

BSc project Mart Bluiminck, supervised by Vincent Groenhuis et al.

Link to essay

YuJa / Vimeo

Final compilation of the MURAB project

MURAB: MRI and Ultrasound Robotic Assisted Biopsy

The project did run from 2016-2020.

Website / YuJa / Vimeo / YouTube

MURAB technical video

This video shows several steps in the workflow such as path planning, ultrasound scanning, 3D ultrasound reconstruction, biopsy planning, needle insertion and sample validation. Deformations of soft tissue are taken into account.

YuJa link / Vimeo link

2019

Miniaturization of MR Safe Pneumatic Stepper Motors

Presented at IROS 2019, Macau

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

MURAB workflow video as demonstrated at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge 2019. We also demonstrated the physical robot and clinical workflow in London.

YuJa link
Vimeo link

Universal Auto-Rewind Spool Holder

Although a hobby project, a combination of this device and Sisyphus spool holder are currently used at RaM for feeding one of our multi-material 3D printers.

Thingiverse link for 3D files and instructions.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

Pneumatic Screwdriver

A hobby project using pneumatic stepper motor technology developed at RaM.

Thingiverse link for 3D files and assembly instructions

YuJa link
Vimeo link

CatchBot: A Versatile MR Safe Robotic Platform for Image-Guided Endovascular Interventions

Research primarily conducted by Mohamed E.M.K. Abdelaziz. The robot uses practically the same pneumatic stepper motors as in the Sunram 4.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

2018

Pneumatic Bourke Engine

This is actually a hobby project, using pneumatic stepper motor technology developed at RaM.

3D printable parts can be downloaded here.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

Pneumatic Gripper

A hobby project, again using pneumatic stepper motor technology developed at RaM.

3D printable parts can be downloaded here.

YuJa link
Vimeo link

Sunram 5: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy.

Improvements over Sunram 4 include dual-speed motors, a biopsy gun, an emergency needle ejection feature and a curved rack for better angulation of the needle towards the breast.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

Dual-speed MR Safe Pneumatic Stepper Motors

Presented at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in Pittsburgh, United States

YuJa link
Vimeo link

2017

Sunram 4: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy.

This won the “Best Video” award at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge, London. Over 130 articles (in 16 languages) about this robot appeared online.

The robot has a serial kinematic chain, as opposed to a parallel kinematic chain in the previous iteration.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

Visualization of breast phantom and lesions with Hololens

BSc project by Leon Klute, supervised by Vincent Groenhuis.

The needle is tracked using either a stereo camera or an NDI electromagnetic tracker (from 0:31), and visualized in the scene together with the phantom and lesion(s) using augmented reality.

Link to BSc report Leon Klute
YuJa link
Vimeo link

2016

Sunram 3: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy

This robot won the “Best Design” award at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge, London.

Main improvements over Sunram 2 are better motors and overall design, and somewhat larger workspace.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

High-Performance Pneumatic Stepper Motors

Two linear and three rotational stepper motors are demonstrated, all 3D printed and quite powerful for its size.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link
RaM YouTube link

MURAB end-effector concept

MSc project by Ruud Spoor, co-supervised by Vincent Groenhuis et al.

The needle holder has the special safety feature that the links are magnetically connected and can be detached easily in case of emergency.

Essay
YuJa
Vimeo

Controlling the Sunram 2: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy

MSc project by Mohamed E.M.K. Abdelaziz, supervised by Vincent Groenhuis et al.

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

2015

Sunram 2: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

Sunram 1: first iteration of MR safe robotic system for breast biopsy

YuJa link
Vimeo link
YouTube link

2014

Powered Exoskeleton

Internship project at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

YuJa link
Vimeo link