Real-time tactile sensory feedback during minimally invasive surgery

• Main Author: Pour Abbas, Safar
• Other Authors: Phee Soo Jay, Louis
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/53647
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is now routinely used as the preferred choice for many operations. MIS, due to surgeons’ indirect interaction with operation site, severely reduces the surgeon’s visual and tactile sensory perception during manipulation. Though visual sensing for MIS is well-establis...