13.3. Publications

13.3.1. Credit/Citation

If you use the dVRK in your research, please cite the following paper:

An Open-Source Research Kit for the da Vinci Surgical System
Peter Kazanzides and Zihan Chen and Anton Deguet and Gregory S. Fischer and Russell H. Taylor and Simon P. DiMaio
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 2014.
bibtex

For posters and videos, please include the dVRK logo if possible.

If you have published some work using the dVRK (hardware or software), please add a reference to the dVRK community publications.

13.3.2. dVRK

  • dVRK-Si: The Next Generation da Vinci Research Kit
    Keshuai Xu and Jie Ying Wu and Anton Deguet and Peter Kazanzides
    IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR 2025), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 2025.
    bibtex
  • Software Architecture of the da Vinci Research Kit
    Zihan Chen and Anton Deguet and Russell H. Taylor and Peter Kazanzides
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, April 2017
    Best Paper Award
  • An Open-Source Research Kit for the da Vinci Surgical System
    Peter Kazanzides and Zihan Chen and Anton Deguet and Gregory S. Fischer and Russell H. Taylor and Simon P. DiMaio
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 2014.
    bibtex
  • An Open-Source Hardware and Software Platform for Telesurgical Robotics Research
    Zihan Chen and Anton Deguet and Russell H. Taylor and Simon P. DiMaio and Gregory S. Fischer and Peter Kazanzides
    The MIDAS Journal - Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions 2013, June 2013.
  • FPGA-Based Velocity Estimation for Control of Robots with Low-Resolution Encoders
    Jie Ying Wu and Zihan Chen and Anton Deguet and Peter Kazanzides
    IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018.
    bibtex
  • An Ethernet to FireWire bridge for real-time control of the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK)
    Long Qian and Zihan Chen and Peter Kazanzides
    IEEE Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Luxembourg, Sept. 2015.
    bibtex

13.3.3. dVRK community

Considering the exponential growth of dVRK related publications, these are now compiled in a BibTeX file hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/jhu-dvrk/community-publications. You can see the existing publications on https://dvrk.lcsr.jhu.edu/publications/index.html