A study of a hand-held instrument's angular motion due to physiological tremor in micromanipulation tasks

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1952-1955

  Latt, W T ^a   Tan, U X ^a   Widjaja, F ^a   Veluvolu, K C ^a   Shee, C Y ^a   Ang, W T ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MICROMANIPULATORS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; ANGULAR MOTIONS; MICRO MANIPULATION; SENSING UNIT; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM;

ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSURGERY; MOTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREMOR;

ACCELERATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TREMOR;

EID: 61849166811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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