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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Robot. AI
Sec. Biomedical Robotics
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1404543
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Soft, Tactile and Haptic Technologies: Recent Developments for Healthcare Applications View all 3 articles

Hardness Changing Tactile Displays for Simulating the Feel of Organic Tissues

Provisionally accepted
Joshua Brown Joshua Brown *Fernando Bello Fernando Bello
  • Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Physical interaction with patients, for example conducted as part of a diagnostic examination or surgical procedure, provides clinicians with a wealth of information about their condition. This paper presents designs for a variety of novel mechanisms for controlling particle jamming-based, hardness changing tactile displays, intended to allow medical trainees to experience these physical interactions in a range of simulation settings such as clinical skills teaching laboratories.The designs are then subjected to a battery of mechanical tests to evaluate their effectiveness compared to the state of the art, as well as their suitability for simulating the physical hardness of different types of soft tissues, previously characterised in established literature.

    Keywords: haptics, soft robotics, Tactile displays, Particle jamming, medical robotics, medical simulation

    Received: 21 Mar 2024; Accepted: 26 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Brown and Bello. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Joshua Brown, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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