A Novel Layer Jamming Mechanism With Tunable Stiffness Capability for Minimally Invasive Surgery

By Yong-Jae Kim, Shanbao Cheng, Sangbae Kim, K. Iagnemma. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2013

378 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Control and Systems Engineering

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Fumiya Iida
2. Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley
3. Michael Goldfarb
4. Guang-Zhong Yang
5. Qibing Pei
6. Arianna Menciassi
7. Robert D. Howe
8. Carmel Majidi

In Condensed Matter Physics

1. Carmel Majidi
2. Fumiya Iida

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Fumiya Iida
2. Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley
3. Robert D. Howe
4. Carmel Majidi
5. J. Vlassak
6. Aaron M. Dollar

Citations in the corpus

• Mechanically Versatile Soft Machines through Laminar Jamming (2018, background): “Researchers have applied laminar jamming to haptics[17, 18, 19], medical devices[20, 21], and soft actuators[22, 23].”
• A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020 (2021, background): “, by incorporating layer jamming in the flexural components (67).”
• Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications (2018, background): “proposed a tubular snake-like manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) based on layer jamming [71].”