Simultaneous soft sensing of tissue contact angle and force for millimeter-scale medical robots
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Arabagi, Veaceslav, Andrew Gosline, Robert J. Wood, and Pierre E. Dupont. 2013. "Simultaneous soft sensing of tissue contact angle and force for millimeter-scale medical robots." In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 4396-4402.Abstract
A novel robotic sensor is proposed to measure both the contact angle and the force acting between the tip of a surgical robot and soft tissue. The sensor is manufactured using a planar lithography process that generates microchannels that are subsequently filled with a conductive liquid. The planar geometry is then molded onto a hemispherical plastic scaffolding in a geometric configuration enabling estimation of the contact angle (angle between robot tip tangent and tissue surface normal) by the rotation of the sensor around its roll axis. Contact force can also be estimated by monitoring the changes in resistance in each microchannel. Bench top experimental results indicate that, on average, the sensor can estimate the angle of contact to within ±2° and the contact force to within ±5.3 g.Other Sources
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