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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE RAS EMBS Int Conf Biomed Robot Biomechatron. 2010:893–899. doi: 10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5625965

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Test Case 1: Spherical Obstacles. The rectangular entry region is shown as a black rectangle at the base of the environment. (a) Optimal needle trajectory that minimizes the needle insertion depth (αl = 1, αo = 0). (b) Optimal needle trajectory that maximizes the clearance from the obstacles (αl = 0, αo = 1).