Highly articulated robotic probe for minimally invasive surgery

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 4167-4172

  Degani, Amir ^a   Choset, Howie ^a,c   Wolf, Alon ^a,b,c   Zenati, Marco A ^a,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Medical robot; Minimally invasive surgery; Snake robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARDIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TISSUE;

EPICARDIUM; MEDICAL ROBOT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (MIS); SNAKE ROBOT;

SURGERY;

EID: 33845608622     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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