A5068802737- Soft Robotics and Applications
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
Université de Sherbrooke
2020-2023
Soft robots employ flexible and compliant materials to perform adaptive tasks navigate uncertain environments. However, soft are often unable achieve forces precision on the order of rigid-bodied robots. In this paper, we propose a new class mobile that can reversibly transition between stiff states without reconfiguration. The robot passively conform or actively control its shape, stiffen in current configuration function as robot, then return form. robotic structure consists passive...
This paper describes a new type of compliant and configurable soft robot, boundary-constrained swarm. The robot consists sealed flexible membrane that constrains both number mobile robotic subunits passive granular material. can change the volume fraction by applying vacuum, which gives ability to operate in two distinct states: jammed. state allows surround conform objects or pass through narrow corridors. Jamming form desired shape; grasp, (a) manipulate, exert relatively high forces on...
Abstract Although laparoscopy has revolutionized modern medicine, its training remains long and complex due to reduced haptic feedback loss of depth perception. Training also poses an ethical challenge when performed on living patients, access cadavers is becoming rare difficult. In the early 2000s, medical simulators began appear help mitigate these problems: virtual reality (VRS) physical (PRS). Current VRS can provide guidance performance evaluation with fewer instructors but are...