As the safety of a human body is the main priority while interacting with robots, the field of tactile sensors has expanded for acquiring tactile information and ensuring safe human-robot interaction (HRI). Existing lightweight and thin tactile senso...
Sensing pressure at the physical interface between the robot and the human has important implications for wearable robots. On the one hand, monitoring pressure distribution can give valuable benefits on the aspects of comfortability and safety of suc...
The traditional medical material distribution management system method lacks systematic analysis and relies heavily on the subjective judgment of related operators, and it is easy to cause excessive or too little inventory, which leads to waste of op...
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
Mar 19, 2021
BACKGROUND: Socially assistive robots (SARs) are created to meet challenges of the global increase of older adults. SARs are autonomous embodied technologies, equipped with auditory and visual faculties, enabling them to interact with users while per...
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) is a technically challenging procedure and there has been limited reporting of its learning curve (LC), mostly by a single surgical working group. The aim of the current study was to perform an independen...
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Mar 18, 2021
PURPOSE: We describe a detailed evaluation of predictors associated with individual lead placement efficiency and accuracy for 261 stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) electrodes placed for epilepsy monitoring in twenty-three children at our instituti...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
Evaluating progress throughout a patient's rehabilitation episode is critical for determining the effectiveness of the selected treatments and is an essential ingredient in personalised and evidence-based rehabilitation practice. The evaluation proce...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
Patients after stroke may have different rehabilitation needs due to various levels of disability. To satisfy such needs, a performance-based hybrid control is proposed for a cable-driven upper-limb rehabilitation robot (CDULRR). The controller inclu...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Aortic valve disease is the most common heart disease in the elderly calling for replacement with an artificial valve. The presented surgical robot aims to provide a highly controllable instrument for efficient delivery of an artificial va...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The application of bubble-based ablation with the focus ultrasound therapy histotripsy is gaining traction for the treatment of venous thrombosis, among other pathologies. For extensive clot burden, the histotripsy source must be translate...
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