A motorized anchoring mechanism for a tethered capsule robot using fibrillar adhesives for interventions in the esophagus

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 758-764

  Glass, Paul ^a   Cheung, Eugene ^a   Wang, Hanyan ^a   Appasamy, Ragunath ^b   Sitti, Metin ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; AVIATION; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

ANCHORING MECHANISMS; BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS; BIOPSY SAMPLES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPIC INTERVENTIONS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE; IN-VITRO; MICRO-SCALE; STOPPING MECHANISMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 63049134551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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