ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI - UEFISCDI, project number PCE171/2021 - Challenge within PNCDI III.

ISI Indexed Journals

[1] Pisla, D.; Hajjar, N.A.; Gherman, B.; Radu, C.; Antal, T.; Tucan, P.; Literat, R.; Vaida, C. Development of a 6-DOF Parallel Robot for Potential Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Application. Machines 2023, 11, 978. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11100978. (ISI-Clarivate, Impact factor 2.6, Q2).

[2] Gabriela Rus, Iulia Andras, Calin Vaida, Corina Radu, Bogdan Gherman, Paul Tucan, Alexandru Pusca Nadim Al Hajjar and Doina Pisla, High accuracy dynamically balanced spherical arm for industrial and medical applications, 2023, accepted for publications in Acta Tehnica Napocensis. (ISI – Clarivate – ESCI).

[3] Pisla, D.; Crisan, N.; Gherman, B.; Andras, I.; Tucan, P.; Radu, C.; Pusca, A.; Vaida, C.; Al Hajjar, N. Safety Issues in the Development of an Innovative Medical Parallel Robot Used in Renal Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 4617. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12144617. (ISI-Clarivate, Impact factor 3.9, Q2).

[4] Rus, G.; Andras, I.; Vaida, C.; Crisan, N.; Gherman, B.; Radu, C.; Tucan, P.; Iakab, S.; Hajjar, N.A.; Pisla, D. Artificial Intelligence-Based Hazard Detection in Robotic-Assisted Single-Incision Oncologic Surgery. Cancers 2023, 15, 3387. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15133387. (ISI-Clarivate, Impact factor 5.2, Q2).

[5] Covaciu, F.; Crisan, N.; Vaida, C.; Andras, I.; Pusca, A.; Gherman, B.; Radu, C.; Tucan, P.; Al Hajjar, N.; Pisla, D. Integration of Virtual Reality in the Control System of an Innovative Medical Robot for Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery. Sensors 2023, 23, 5400, https://doi.org/10.3390/s23125400 , 2023. (ISI-Clarivate, Impact factor 3.9, Q2).

[6] Pisla, D., Birlescu, I., Pusca, A., Tucan, P., Gherman, B., Vaida, C., Kinematics and Workspace Analysis of an Innovative 6-Dof Parallel Robot for SILS, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, Volume 23, Number 3/2022, pp.277-286, 2022. (ISI – Clarivate, Impact factor 0.734, Q4).

[7] Pisla, D., Birlescu, I., Crisan, N., Pusca, A., Andras, I., Tucan, P., Radu, C., Gherman, B., Vaida, C., Singularity Analysis and Geometric Optimization of a 6-DOF Parallel Robot for SILS, Machines, Vol. 10, Issue 9, 764, doi: doi.org/10.3390/machines10090764, 2022. (ISI - Clarivate , Impact factor 2.89, Q2).

[8] Pusca, A., Rus, G., Birlescu, I., Vaida, C., Pisla, A., Schonstein, C., Gherman, B., Tucan, P., Pisla, D., Workspace analysis of two innovative parallel robots for single incision laparoscopic surgery, Acta Tehnica Napocensis, Series: App. Math. Mech. And Eng. Vol. 65, Issue II, pp. 407-414, 2022. (ISI – Clarivate – ESCI, printed volume being indexed, ISSN: 1221-5872 – print, 2393-2988 - online).

[9] Ulinici, I., Vaida, C., Antal, T., Pisla, D., Kinematics and workspace simulation of a new parallel robot for SILS, Acta Tehnica Napocensis, Series: App. Math. Mech. And Eng. Vol. 65, Issue II, pp. 505-514, 2022. (ISI – Clarivate – ESCI, printed volume being indexed, ISSN: 1221-5872 – print, 2393-2988 - online).

[10] Pisla, D., Andras, I., Vaida, C., Crisan, N., Ulinici, I., Birlescu, I., Plitea, N., New Approach to Hybrid Robotic System Application in Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Acta Tehnica Napocensis, Vol. 64(3), pp. 369-378, 2021. (ISI – Clarivate – ESCI).

BDI Indexed Journals

[1] Alexandru Pusca, Iulia Andras, Andrei Cailean, Nicolae Crisan, Calin Vaida, Corina Radu, Bogdan Gherman, Nadim Al Hajjar, Damien Chablat, Doina Pisla, On the development of an innovative surgical parallel robotic system, 2023. (Book chapter indexed BDI – SCOPUS- accepted for publications in Springer).

[2] Pisla, D.; Crisan, N.; Ulinici, I.; Gherman, B.; Radu, C.; Tucan, P.; Vaida, C. Structural Study of a Robotic System for Sils Surgery. In: Tarnita, D., Dumitru, N., Pisla, D., Carbone, G., Geonea, I. (eds) New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics. MESROB 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32446-8_3. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[3] Pisla, D.; Andras, I.; Pusca, A.; Radu, C.; Gherman, B.; Tucan, P.; Crisan, N.; Vaida, C.; Hajjar, N.A. Design and Functional Analysis of a New Parallel Modular Robotic System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery. In: Tarnita, D., Dumitru, N., Pisla, D., Carbone, G., Geonea, I. (eds) New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics. MESROB 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32446-8_4. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[4] Covaciu, F.; Pop, I.; Gherman, B.; Pisla, A.; Vaida, C.; Hajjar, N.A.; Pisla, D.; “Development of a Virtual Reality Simulator for Robotic Assisted Surgery”. In: Laribi, M.A., Nelson, C.A., Ceccarelli, M., Zeghloul, S. (eds) New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. MeTrApp 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29815-8_6. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[5] Pisla, D., Andras I., Rus. G., Moldovan C., Crisan, N., Antal, T., Ulinici, I., Vaida, C., U-net Network Optimization For 3D Reconstruction in Robotic SILS Pre-Planning Phase, MediTech – 2022, accepted for publications. (Book chapter IFMBE Series, submitted for publication and ISI indexing proceeding).

[6] Pisla, D., Gherman, B., Tucan, P., Birlescu I., Pusca, A., Vaida, C., Rus, G., Pisla, A., Vaida, C., Application Oriented Modelling and Simulation of an Innovative Parallel Robot for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, ASME 2022, IDETC/ CIE 2022, St. Louis, Missouri, Volume 7, DETC2022-89968, V007T07A032, 10 pages, doi: doi.org/10.1115/DETC2022-89968, 2022. (Conference paper indexed BDI SCOPUS).

[7] Tucan, P., Gherman, B., Andras, I., Vaida, C., Pisla, D., Kinematic Modelling of a Parallel Robot Used in Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control, ROMANSY-2022, CISM, Volume 606, pp. 115-122, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06409- 8_12, 2022. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[8] Gherman, B., Tucan, P., Vaida, C., Crisan, N., Rus, G., Birlescu I., Pisla, D., On the Kinematics and Dimensional Optimization of a Robotic System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region, RAAD-2022, Machan. Machine Science, Volume 120 pp. 383-391, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04870-8_45, 2022. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[9] Birlescu I., Vaida, C., Pusca, A., Rus, G., Pisla, D., A New Approach to Forward Kinematics for an Orientation Platform based on Perturbation Theory, International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, ARK 2022, SPAR, Volume 24, pp. 171-178, doi: doi.org/10.1007/978- 3-031-08140-8_19, 2022. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[10] Vaida, C., Birlescu I., Pusca, A., Gherman, B., Tucan, P., Pisla, D., Geometric Modeling of a New Modular Spherical Robotic System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region, RAAD-2022, Mechan. Machine Science, Volume 120, pp. 367-374, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04870-8_43, 2022. (Book chapter indexed BDI - SCOPUS).

[11] Ulinici, I., Crisan, N., Vaida, C., Andras, I., Pisla, D., Analysis and Preliminary Design of a New Parallel Robot for SILS, 2022 2022 IEEE Int. Conf. on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR), 21818012, doi: 10.1109/AQTR55203.2022.9801936, 2022. (IEEE paper, being indexed ISI Proceedings).

[12] Vaida, C., Rus, G., Gherman, B., Pusca, A., Tucan, P., Ulinici, I., & Pisla, D. Development of an augmented reality simulator for a robotic system used in single incision laparoscopic surgery. The Romanian Journal of Technical Sciences. Applied Mechanics., 68(1), pp 3-19, 2023. (BDI paper, Index Copernicus, CNCSIS B+).

[13] Pisla, D., Caramia, D., Gherman, B., Soleti, G., Ulinici, I., Vaida, C., A Novel Client-Server Based Architecture for the Control System in Robotic-Assisted Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Ro. J. Techn. Sci. Appl. Mechanics, Vol. 66(2), pp. 143-165, 2021. (BDI paper, Index Copernicus, CNCSIS B+).

[14] Vaida, C., Crisan, N., Birlescu, I., Andras, I., Pisla, D., "Preliminary Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Agents for a SILS Robotic System", 2021 International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), Iasi, Romania, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/EHB52898.2021.9657717. (IEEE paper, Indexed ISI Proceedings).

[15] Vaida, C., Andras, I., Birlescu I., Crisan, N., Plitea, N., Pisla, D., "Preliminary control design of a Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Robotic System", 2021 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICSTCC52150.2021.9607128, pp. 384-289. (IEEE paper, Indexed ISI Proceedings).

Conference Papers

[1] In period 9-10 november 2023, drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca and drd. ing. Gabriela Rus, they attended at 11-th International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering- EHB 2023 (Bucuresti, România). During the conference, drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca presented the paper titled: „On the development of an innovative surgical parallel robotic system” (link).

[2] In period 23-28 july 2023, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla, and drd. ing. Gabriela Rus, they attended at 27th International Conference on Production Research – ICPR 2023 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). During the conference, drd.ing. Gabriela Rus presented the paper titled: „High accuracy dynamically balanced spherical arm for industrial and medical applications” (link).

[3] In period 7-10 june 2023, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman, drd. ing. Gabriela Rus and drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca, they attended at 8th International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robots – MESROB 2023 (Craiova, Romania). During the conference, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman presented the paper titled: „ Structural Study of a Robotic System for Sils Surgery” (link).

[4] In period 7-10 june 2023, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman, drd. ing. Gabriela Rus and drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca, they attended at 8th International Workshop on New Trends in Medical and Service Robots – MESROB 2023 (Craiova, Romania). During the conference, drd.ing. Alexandru Pusca presented the paper titled: „Design and Functional Analysis of a New Parallel Modular Robotic System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery” (link).

[5] In period 24-26 may 2023, Conf. dr. ing. Florin Covaciu, attended the 6th IFToMM International Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Applications – MeTrApp 2023 (Poitiers, Franta). During the conference, Conf. dr. ing. Florin Covaciu presented the paper titled: „ Integration of Virtual Reality in the Control System of an Innovative Medical Robot for Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery”. (link) (link).

[6] In period 19-21 may 2022, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla, drd. Ing. Alin Burz and drd. Ing. Ionut Ulinici they attended at IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics-AQTR, online sesions (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). During the conference, drd.ing. Ionut Ulinici presented the paper titled: „Analysis and Preliminary Design of a New Parallel Robot for SILS”. (link)

[7] In period 8-10 june 2022, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla, Prof. dr. ing. Adrian Pisla and Conf. dr. ing. Gherman Bogdan they attended at 31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region, which took place in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria. During the conference, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman presented the paper titled: „On the Kinematics and Dimensional Optimization of a Robotic System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery” and Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla presented the paper titled: „Geometric modeling of a new modular spherical robotic system for SILS”. (link)

[8] In period 26-30 june 2022, S.L. dr. ing. Iosif Birlescu participated at 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, which took place in Bilbao, Spania. During the conference, S.L. dr. ing. Iosif Birlescu presented the paper titled: „A New Approach to Forward Kinematics for an Orientation Platform based on Perturbation Theory”. (link)

[9] In period 4-7 july 2022, S.L. dr. ing. Paul Tucan participated at 24th CISM IFToMM Symposium (ROMANSY), witch took place in Udine, Italia. During the conference, S.L. dr. ing. Paul Tucan presented the paper titled: „Kinematic Modelling of a Parallel Robot Used in Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery”. (link)

[10] In period 14-17 august 2022, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman participated at 42nd Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), witch took place in Missouri, USA. During the conference, Conf. dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman presented the paper titled: „Application Oriented Modelling and Simulation of an Innovative Parallel Robot for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery”. ( link)

[11] In period 20-22 october 2022, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla and drd. Ing. Gabriela Rus they participated at 8th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology, online session (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). During the conference, drd. ing. Gabriela Rus presented the paper titled: „U-net Network Optimization For 3D Reconstruction in Robotic SILS Pre-Planning Phase”. (link)

[12] In period 28 october 2022, drd. ing. Ionut Ulinici and drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca they participated at 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering, online sessions (Craiova, Romania). During the conference drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca presented the paper titled: „Workspace analysis of two innovative parallel robots for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery” and drd. ing. Ionut Ulinici presented the paper titled: „Kinematics and workspace simulation of a new parallel robot for SILS”. (link)

[13] In period 17-18 november 2022, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla, Prof. dr. ing. Calin Vaida, Conf. Dr. ing. Bogdan Gherman and drd. Ing. Alexandru Pusca they participatet at SYROM & ROBOTICS 2022 conference, witch took place in Iasi, Romania. During the conference drd. ing. Alexandru Pusca presented the paper titled:"Development of a Force Feedback Control for Robotic Assisted Liver Cancer Treatment". (link)

[14] In period 20-23 october 2021, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla and Prof. dr. ing. Calin Vaida, they participated at 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), online session (Iasi, Romania). During the conference Prof. dr. ing. Calin Vaida presented the paper titled: „Preliminary control design of a Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Robotic System”. (link)

[15] In period 18-19 november 2021, Prof. dr. ing. Doina Pisla and Prof. dr. ing. Calin Vaida, they participated at the 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering - EHB 2021, online sessions (Iasi, Romania). During the conference Prof. dr. ing. Calin Vaida presented the paper titled: „Preliminary Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Agents for a SILS Robotic System”. (link)