Title
Touching stomach by air
Abstract
This paper proposes a new endoscope system with an air injection based contact probe capable of measuring the local impedance of the inner surface of stomach. By utilizing air pressure, we can produce an equivalent contact force, which is really advantageous for avoiding any damage for stomach during an examination. A big issue is that there is no way to obtain the applied force to stomach exactly. The key for solving it is the specially designed solenoid valve with the response for more than 500 Hz. The solenoid valve with such a high response allows us to estimate each impedance parameter, even with a reference value. We show experimental system with a couple of interesting results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241670
Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological organs,endoscopes,medical robotics,patient diagnosis,tactile sensors,valves,air injection,air pressure,contact probe,endoscope system,impedance parameter,local impedance measurement,medical diagnostic robotics,solenoid valve,stomach,tactile probe
Secondary air injection,Experimental system,Solenoid valve,Control theory,Medical robotics,Contact force,Electrical impedance,Atmospheric pressure,Acoustics,Engineering,Electrical engineering,Tactile sensor
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
1
1050-4729
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7736-2
5
3.81
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaneko, M.174.24
Kawahara, T.264.43
Matsunaga, S.347749.70
Tsuji, T.4406.62