dr. V. Kalpathy Venkiteswaran (Venkat)

Venkatsubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering at University of Twente. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Surgical Robotics Lab at University of Twente for two years. He received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA, working on design principles for compliant mechanisms.

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Surgical Robotics (SR)

Venkat’s research interests include design of soft robots and flexible devices, with a focus on medical application. He is currently working on projects related to bio-inspired untethered magnetic soft robots, flexure-based design of continuum manipulators, magnetic catheters for percutaneous coronary interventions, geometrically-exact models for continuum devices and the use of magnetic actuation systems for minimally-invasive surgery.

Lloyd, P. , Thomas, T. L. , Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V., Pittiglio, G., Chandler, J. H., Valdastri, P. , & Misra, S. (2023). A Magnetically-Actuated Coiling Soft Robot With Variable Stiffness. IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 8(6), 3262-3269. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3264770

Heunis, C. M., Wang, Z., de Vente, G. , Misra, S. , & Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. (2023). A Magnetic Bio-Inspired Soft Carrier as a Temperature-Controlled Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery System. Macromolecular bioscience, [2200559]. https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.202200559

Thomas, T. L. (2023). Bending the Rules: Magnetically-Actuated Surgical Continuum Manipulators. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555913

Wang, C., Myzk, A., Schirhagl, R. , Misra, S. , & Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. (2023). Biocompatible Film-Coating of Magnetic Soft Robots for Mucoadhesive Locomotion. Advanced Materials Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202201813

Thomas, T. L., Bos, J., Huaroto Sevilla, J. J. J. , Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. , & Misra, S. (2023). A Magnetically Actuated Variable Stiffness Manipulator Based on Deployable Shape Memory Polymer Springs. Advanced Intelligent Systems. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200465

Richter, M. , Kaya, M. , Sikorski, J. , Abelmann, L. , Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. , & Misra, S. (2023). Magnetic Soft Helical Manipulators with Local Dipole Interactions for Flexibility and Forces. Soft Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2022.0031

Thomas, T. L. , Sikorski, J., Ananthasuresh, G. K. , Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. , & Misra, S. (2022). Design, Sensing, and Control of a Magnetic Compliant Continuum Manipulator. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 4(4), 910-921. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2022.3204577

de Oliveira, A. J. A., Batista, J. , Misra, S. , & Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. (2022). Ultrasound Tracking and Closed-Loop Control of a Magnetically-Actuated Biomimetic Soft Robot. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) (pp. 3422-3428). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981635

van Vliet, G. M. , Misra, S. , & Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. (2022). A Magnetically-Actuated Flexible Capsule Robot for Untethered Cardiovascular Interventions. Paper presented at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Wang, C., Rithwick Puranam, V. , Misra, S. , & Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. (2022). A Snake-Inspired Multi-Segmented Magnetic Soft Robot towards Medical Applications. IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 7(2), 5795-5802. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3160753

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