STIFF-FLOP surgical manipulator: Mechanical design and experimental characterization of the single module

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3576-3581

  Cianchetti, Matteo ^a   Ranzani, Tommaso ^a   Gerboni, Giada ^a   De Falco, Iris ^a   Laschi, Cecilia ^a   Menciassi, Arianna ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MINIMAL ACCESS SURGERY; MODULAR MANIPULATORS; PNEUMATIC CHAMBERS; STIFFNESS CHANGING; SURGICAL MANIPULATORS; TENDON-DRIVEN MECHANISMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SILICONES; STIFFNESS; SURGERY;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 84893713461     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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