Sensitivity analysis of a novel tactile probe for measurement of tissue softness with applications in biomedical robotics

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 183, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 176-182

  Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^b   Liu, Bin ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Biomedical Engineering   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deformable objects; Sensitivity analysis; Softness measurements; Tactile probe

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGERY; TISSUE;

DEFORMABLE OBJECTS; SOFTNESS MEASUREMENTS; TACTILE PROBES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846858402     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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