dVRK

Software Architecture of the da Vinci Research Kit
Zihan Chen, Anton Deguet, 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
Kazanzides P, Chen Z, Deguet A, Fischer GS, Taylor RH, DiMaio SP
ICRA 2014, May 2014.
An Open-Source Hardware and Software Platform for Telesurgical Robotics Research
Chen Z, Deguet A, Taylor RH, DiMaio SP, Fischer GS, Kazanzides P
The MIDAS Journal - Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions 2013, June 2013.

Applications

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.