Development of a Tactile Feedback System for Robot Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (Ontwikkeling van een tactiel terugkoppelingssysteem voor robotgeassisteerde minimaal invasieve chirurgie) KU Leuven
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) continues to grow in importance and to gradually change and improve the medical practice. This technique comes with great advantages, such as lower risk, fast patient recovery and a reduced hospital stay, but requires an increased dexterity and concentration on the part of the surgeon. To solve those problems, robots were introduced that mimic the movements of the surgeons, allowing them to focus solely on the ...