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Publications

Journal Publications

Z. Nagy, O. Ergeneman, J. J. Abbott, M. Hutter, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Assembled-MEMS Devices for Wireless Magnetic Control," In preparation for J. Micromechanics and Microengineering.

M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, B. E. Kratochvil, R. Borer, A. Sengul, and B. J. Nelson, "OctoMag: An Electromagnetic Systems for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation," Submitted to IEEE Trans. Robotics.

C. Bergeles, K. Shamaei, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Single-Camera Focus-Based Localizing of Intraocular Devices," Submitted to IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering.

B. J. Nelson, I. K. Kaliakatsos, and J. J. Abbott, "Wireless Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine," Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, To appear in 2010.

Z. Nagy, M. Fluckiger, R. Oung, I. K. Kaliakatsos, E. W. Hawkes, B. J. Nelson, K. Harada, E. Susilo, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, and J. J. Abbott, "Assembling Reconfigurable Endoluminal Surgical Systems: Opportunities and Challenges," Int. J. Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics, 1(1):3-16.

L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, K. E. Peyer, B. E. Kratochvil, H. Zhang, C. Bergeles, and B. J. Nelson, "Characterizing the Swimming Properties of Artificial Bacterial Flagella ," Nano Lett., 9(10):3663-3667, 2009.
Available online.

J. J. Abbott, K. E. Peyer, M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, L. Zhang, L. X. Dong, I. K. Kaliakatsos, and B. J. Nelson, "How Should Microrobots Swim?," Int. J. Robotics Research, 28(11-12):1434-1447, 2009.
Available online.

L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, B. E. Kratochvil, D. Bell, and B. J. Nelson, "Artificial Bacterial Flagella: Fabrication and Magnetic Control," Applied Physics Lett., 94(064107), 2009.
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O. Ergeneman, G. Dogangil, M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, M. K. Nazeeruddin, and B. J. Nelson, "A Magnetically Controlled Wireless Optical Oxygen Sensor for Intraocular Measurements," IEEE Sensors J., 8(1):29-37, 2008.
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J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, M. P. Kummer, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Magnetic Torque and Force for Controlled Manipulation of Soft-Magnetic Bodies," IEEE Trans. Robotics, 23(6):1247-1252, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Pseudo-admittance Bilateral Telemanipulation with Guidance Virtual Fixtures," Int. J. Robotics Research, 26(8):865-884, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott, Z. Nagy, F. Beyeler, and B. J. Nelson, "Robotics in the Small, Part I: Microrobotics," IEEE Robotics and Automation Mag., 14(2):92-103, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott and S. G. Meek, "Digital Emulation of Pulse Frequency Modulation for Neuroprosthetic Sensory Feedback," IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15(1):131-135, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Stable Forbidden-Region Virtual Fixtures for Bilateral Telemanipulation," ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 128(1):53-64, 2006.
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J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Effects of Position Quantization and Sampling Rate on Virtual-Wall Passivity,'' IEEE Trans. Robotics, 21(5):952-964, 2005.
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Conference Publications

M. Nambi, W. R. Provancher, and J. J. Abbott, "Effect of Velocity on Human Force Control Revisited," EuroHaptics, 2010, In preparation.

T. W. R. Fountain, P. V. Kailat, and J. J. Abbott, "Wireless Control of Magnetic Helical Microrobots using a Rotating-Permanent-Magnet Manipulator," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, 2010, Submitted.

M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, B. E. Kratochvil, R. Borer, A. Sengul, and B. J. Nelson, "OctoMag: An Electromagnetic Systems for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, 2010, Submitted.

B. E. Kratochvil, M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, and B. J. Nelson, "OctoMag: An Electromagnetic Systems for 5-DOF Wireless Manipulation," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, 2010, Video submitted.

L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, L. X. Dong, B. E. Kratochvil, H. Zhang, K. E. Peyer, and B. J. Nelson, "Micromanipulation Using Artificial Bacterial Flagella," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1401-1406, 2009.
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Z. Nagy, S. Miyashita, S. Muntwyler, A. K. Cherukuri, J. J. Abbott, R. Pfeifer, and B. J. Nelson, "Morphology Detection for Magnetically Self-Assembled Modular Robots," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5281-5286, 2009.
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C. Bergeles, K. Shamaei, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Wide-Angle Localization of Intraocular Devices from Focus," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4523-4528, 2009.
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C. Bergeles, K. Shamaei, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Wide-Field Intraocular Imaging and Localization," Int. Conf. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, pp. 540-548, 2009.
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C. Bergeles, G. Fagogenis, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Tracking Intraocular Microdevices Based on Colorspace Evaluation and Statistical Color/Shape Information," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 3934-3939, 2009.
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C. Bergeles, K. Shamaei, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "On Imaging and Localizing Untethered Intraocular Devices with a Stationary Camera," IEEE Int. Conf. Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, pp. 489-494, 2008. Finalist, Best Paper Award and Finalist, Best Student Paper Award.
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O. Ergeneman, J. J. Abbott, G. Dogangil, and B. J. Nelson, "Functionalizing Intraocular Microrobots with Surface Coatings," IEEE Int. Conf. Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, pp. 232-237, 2008.
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Z. Nagy, R. Oung, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Experimental Investigation of Magnetic Self-Assembly for Swallowable Modular Robots," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1915-1920, 2008.
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G. Dogangil, O. Ergeneman, J. J. Abbott, S. Pane, H. Hall, S. Muntwyler, and B. J. Nelson, "Toward Targeted Retinal Drug Delivery with Wireless Microrobots," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1921-1926, 2008.
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B. E. Kratochvil, L. X. Dong, L. Zhang, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Nanohelices as Motion Converters," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems 2008, pp. 4141-4142, 2008, Video.
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Z. Nagy, O. Ergeneman, J. J. Abbott, M. Hutter, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Assembled-MEMS Microrobots for Wireless Magnetic Control," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 874-879, 2008.
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J. J. Abbott, K. E. Peyer, L. X. Dong, and B. J. Nelson, "How Should Microrobots Swim?," Int. Symp. Robotics Research, 2007.
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Z. Nagy, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "The Magnetic Self-Aligning Hermaphroditic Connector: A Scalable Approach for Modular Microrobots," IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, M. P. Kummer, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "Modeling Magnetic Torque and Force for Controlled Manipulation of Soft-Magnetic Bodies," IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2007. The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper with the same title.

M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, S. Dinser, and B. J. Nelson, "Artificial Vitreous Humor for In Vitro Experiments," IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 6406-6409, 2007.
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O. Ergeneman, G. Dogangil, J. J. Abbott, M. K. Nazeeruddin, and B. J. Nelson, "A Magnetically Controlled Wireless Intraocular Oxygen Sensor: Concept, Prototype, and In Vitro Experiments," IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 4189-4193, 2007. The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper "A Magnetically Controlled Wireless Optical Oxygen Sensor for Intraocular Measurements."

M. P. Kummer, J. J. Abbott, K. Vollmers, and B. J. Nelson, "Measuring the Magnetic and Hydrodynamic Properties of Assembled-MEMS Microrobots," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 1122-1127, 2007.
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J. J. Abbott, O. Ergeneman, M. P. Kummer, A. M. Hirt, and B. J. Nelson, "A Continuous Model for Magnetization Torque on Axially Symmetric Bodies," Joint MMM/Intermag Conf., 2007 (poster). The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper "Modeling Magnetic Torque and Force for Controlled Manipulation of Soft-Magnetic Bodies."

J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Pseudo-admittance Bilateral Telemanipulation with Guidance Virtual Fixtures," IEEE Symp. Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 169-175, 2006. Finalist, Best Student Paper Award. The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper with the same title.
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J. J. Abbott, P. Marayong, and A. M. Okamura, "Haptic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Manipulation," Int. Symp. Robotics Research, 2005. The definitive version of this work is published as a book chapter with the same title.

M. Wu, J. J. Abbott, and A. M. Okamura, "Effect of Velocity on Human Force Control," Proc. Joint Eurohaptics Conf. and Symp. Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (World Haptics), pp. 73-79, 2005.
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J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "A Sufficient Condition for Virtual Wall Passivity with Quantization Effects," ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, pp. 1065-1073, 2004. The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper "Effects of Position Quantization and Sampling Rate on Virtual-Wall Passivity."

I. Emeagwali, P. Marayong, J. J. Abbott, and A. M. Okamura, "Performance Analysis of Steady-Hand Telemanipulation versus Cooperative Manipulation," Symp. Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 316-322, 2004.
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J. J. Abbott, G. D. Hager, and A. M. Okamura, "Steady-Hand Teleoperation with Virtual Fixtures," IEEE Int. Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 145-151, 2003.
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J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Analysis of Virtual Fixture Contact Stability for Telemanipulation," IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2699-2706, 2003. The definitive version of this work is in the journal paper "Stable Forbidden-Region Virtual Fixtures for Bilateral Telemanipulation."

J. J. Abbott and A. M. Okamura, "Virtual Fixture Architectures for Telemanipulation," IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 2798-2805, 2003.
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Book Chapters and Nonreviewed Papers

O. Ergeneman, C. Bergeles, J. J. Abbott, and B. J. Nelson, "Wireless Intraocular Microrobots: Opportunities and Challenges," In preparation for J. Rosen, B. Hannaford, and R. Satava, editors, Surgical Robotics: Systems, Applications, and Visions.

J. J. Abbott, K. E. Peyer, L. X. Dong, and B. J. Nelson, "How Should Microrobots Swim?," In Robotics Research: Results of the 13th International Symposium ISRR, In press.

J. J. Abbott, P. Marayong, and A. M. Okamura, "Haptic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Manipulation," In S. Thrun, R. Brooks, and H. Durrant-Whyte, editors, Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, pp. 49-64. Springer, 2007.
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A. M. Okamura and J. J. Abbott, "Virtual Fixtures for Telemanipulation: Control and Applications in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery," SPIE Robotics and Machine Perception Technical Group Newsletter, 13(1), April 2004.
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Ph.D. Dissertations and Master's Theses

J. J. Abbott, 2005, "Virtual Fixtures for Bilateral Telemanipulation," Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
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J. J. Abbott, 2001, "Design Tools for Pulse-Frequency-Modulated Control Systems: Error Analysis and Limit-Cycle Prediction," Master's Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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