Publications

Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning
By Tleukhan Mussin, Yafei Ou, Mahdi Tavakoli. IEEE RAS/EMBS 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2026.
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1 minute
CRESSim–MPM: A Material Point Method Library for Surgical Soft Body Simulation with Cutting and Suturing
By Yafei Ou, Mahdi Tavakoli. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
256 words
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1 minute
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Learning Autonomous Surgical Irrigation and Suction with the da Vinci Research Kit Using Reinforcement Learning
By Yafei Ou, Mahdi Tavakoli. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025.
361 words
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2 minutes
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Autonomous Soft-Tissue Needle Steering Using Reinforcement Learning Guided by Human Input
By Yafei Ou, Mahdi Tavakoli. Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2024.
256 words
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1 minute
Autonomous Blood Suction for Robot-Assisted Surgery: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Approach
By Yafei Ou, Abed Soleymani, Xingyu Li, Mahdi Tavakoli. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024.
237 words
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1 minute
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