A multi-chamber soft robot for transesophageal echocardiography: continuous kinematic matching control of soft medical robots.

Journal: Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This research investigates designing a continuum soft robot and proposing a kinematic matching control to enable the robot to perform a specified medical task, which in this paper is the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).

Authors

  • Mostafa Sayahkarajy
    Group of Biomechatronics, Technische Universität Ilmenau Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Ilmenau D-98693, Germany.
  • Hartmut Witte
    Group of Biomechatronics, Technische Universität Ilmenau Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Ilmenau D-98693, Germany.