Development of large intestine endoscope changing its stiffness

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2320-2325

  Wakimoto, Shuichi ^a   Kumagai, Issei ^a   Suzumori, Koichi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PRESSURES; COLONOSCOPY; HIGH SAFETY; LARGE INTESTINE; NONLINEAR FEM; SILICONE RUBBER; U-SHAPED;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMIMETICS; ENDOSCOPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ROBOTICS; SILICONES;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 77951475237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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