Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) has reshaped the standard clinical
practice during the past two decades. Many believe that the next big step in the …

In this paper, a piezoelectric tactile sensor for detecting tissue stiffness in robot-assisted
minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) is proposed. It can detect the stiffness not only when the …

Surgical scene understanding in Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) is highly
reliant on visual cues and lacks tactile perception. Force-modulated surgical palpation with …

It is difficult to install the sensor on the end effector of a minimally invasive surgical robot with
a narrow space within which to obtain the position and grasping force; thus, the elongation …

Minimally Invasive Surgeries can benefit from having miniaturized sensors on surgical
graspers to provide additional information to the surgeons. In this work, a 6 mm ultrasound …

Minimally Invasive Surgery lacks tactile feedback that surgeons find useful for finding and
diagnosing tissue abnormalities. The goal of this paper is to calibrate sensors of a motorized …

This paper studies proof of concept in which soft material displacement during indentation is
measured by a change in light intensity as the indenter is pushed into a soft material. The …

Abstract Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is now standard in modern medicine and involves
operating through small incisions using laparoscopic instruments (graspers) for …

In the last few decades robotic systems have gained an increasingly large influence on the
medical field. Especially with the introduction of the commercially available da Vinci surgical …