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 …
Vision and touch are two of the important sensing modalities for humans and they offer complementary information for sensing the environment. Robots could also benefit from …
DF Gomes, Z Lin, S Luo - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensing contacts throughout the fingers is an essential capability for a robot to perform manipulation tasks in cluttered environments. However, existing tactile sensors either only …
A novel surgical palpation probe installing a miniature 6-axis force/torque (F/T) sensor is presented for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The 6-axis F/T sensor is developed …
Z **a, Z Deng, B Fang, Y Yang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Sensory perception for dexterous robotic hands is an active research area and recent progress in robotics. Effective dexterous manipulation requires robotic hands to accurately …
M Kaboli, G Cheng - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a set of novel tactile descriptors to enable robotic systems to extract robust tactile information during tactile object explorations, regardless of the number …