Dr. Murali Krishna Karnam

Tomooka, Yukiko, Schmidt, Carina, Hjerppe, Jenni, Balmer, Marc, Jung, Ronald, Mohler, Raphael, Yildiz, Ahmet, Karnam, Murali, Eugster, Manuela, & Rauter, Georg. (2026). Miniature intraoral robot (MIR) for minimally invasive tooth preparation [Journal-article]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 8(2), 727–738. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmrb.2026.3682629

Karnam, Murali Krishna. (2026). Intuitive control for hand-guiding surgical tools with macro-robots [Doctoral Thesis]. University of Basel.

Karnam, Murali, Zelechowski, Marek, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2025). User-specified inverse kinematics taught in virtual reality reduce time and effort to hand-guide redundant surgical robots [Journal-article]. Communications Engineering, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-025-00357-x

Ruben Martin-Rodriguez, Murali Karnam, Florian Thieringer, Georg Rauter, & Nicolas Gerig. (2025, February 19). A Hybrid Educational Platform for Medical Robotics: Bridging Simulation and Real-World Hardware. IFToMM D-A-CH 2025. https://doi.org/10.17185/DUEPUBLICO/82913

Żelechowski, M., Zubizarreta-Oteiza, J., Karnam, M., Faludi, B., Zentai, N., Gerig, N., Rauter, G., Thieringer, F. M., & Cattin, P. C. (2025). Augmented reality navigation in orthognathic surgery: Comparative analysis and a paradigm shift. Healthcare Technology Letters, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1049/htl2.12109

Karnam, Murali, Rychen, Jonathan, Guzman, Raphael, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2024). Robot-Assisted Neuroendoscopy: Surgeon’s Third Hand-A Proof of Concept Study. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 10, 49–52. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2024-1064

Żelechowski, M., Faludi, B., Karnam, M., Gerig, N., Rauter, G., & Cattin, P. C. (2023). Automatic patient positioning based on robot rotational workspace for extended reality. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 18(11), 1951–1959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-023-02967-2

Karnam, Murali, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2023). Qualitative and quantitative assessment of admittance controllers for hand-guiding surgical robots. At-Automatisierungstechnik, 71, 515–527. https://doi.org/10.1515/auto-2023-0063

Karnam, Murali, Zelechowski, Marek, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2023). Workspace-aware Planning of a Surgical Robot Mounting in Virtual Reality. In Tarnita, Daniela;Dumitru, Nicolae;Pisla, Doina;Carbone, Giuseppe;Geonea, Ionut (Ed.), New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics (p. 13). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Karnam, Murali, Zelechowski, Marek, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2023). Workspace-aware Planning of a Surgical Robot Mounting in Virtual Reality. Mechanisms and Machine Science, 133 MMS, 13–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32446-8_2

Eugster M., Duverney C., Karnam M., Gerig N., Cattin P.C., & Rauter G. (2022). Robotic Endoscope System for Future Application in Minimally Invasive Laser Osteotomy: First Concept Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 4(3), 621–633. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmrb.2022.3172471

Karnam, Murali, Zelechowski, Marek, Cattin, Philippe C., Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2022). Augmented Reality for 6-DoF Motion Recording, Preview, and Execution to Enable Intuitive Surgical Robot Control. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 8(2), 225–228. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2022-1058

Zelechowski M., Karnam M., Faludi B., Gerig N., Rauter G., & Cattin P.C. (2022). Patient positioning by visualising surgical robot rotational workspace in augmented reality. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization, 10(4), 451–457. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2021.2002192

Karnam M., Eugster M., Parini R., Cattin P.C., De Momi E., Rauter G., & Gerig N. (2021). Learned task space control to reduce the effort in controlling redundant surgical robots. Mechanisms and Machine Science, 93, 161–168. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58104-6_19

Karnam, Murali, Cattin, Philippe, Rauter, Georg, & Gerig, Nicolas. (2021). Comparing cascaded real-time controllers for an extended KUKA LBR iiwa robot during physical human-robot interaction. Siebte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2021, 2021. https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/74060

Karnam, M. K., Baskar, A., Srivatsan, R. A., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2020). Computation of the safe working zones of Planar and Spatial Parallel Manipulators. 38. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263574719001139