Flexible sensors can be envisioned as promising components for smart sensing
applications, including consumer electronics, robotics, prosthetics, health care, safety …

As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

This article gives an overview of research performed in the field of haptic information
feedback during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Literature has been consulted from 1985 …

During the last decades, tactile sensors based on different sensing principles have been
developed due to the growing interest in robotics and, mainly, in medical applications …

Wearable sensors and devices capable of simulating human somatosensation are highly
desirable to develop the next generation of electronic skins (e-skins), human-machine …

Since direct manual tissue palpation is not possible in laparoscopic surgery, feedback
information on tactile tissue properties is considerably diminished. Restoring part of the …

In this paper a multifunctional tactile sensor system using PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), is
proposed, designed, analyzed, tested and validated. The working principle of the sensor is …

Two experiments aiming at comparing palpation with gloved fingers, conventional
laparoscopic instruments, and a laparoscopic instrument with a sensor array attached to its …

Background Conventional vascular interventional surgery (VIS) is manually performed
under fluoroscopic guidance, requiring lead protection for the surgeons. In order to reduce …

Abstract 3D force sensors were developed and integrated in a laparoscope gras** head
of the Robin Heart surgery robot to provide additional tactile and force feedback to the …