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ArticleSoft robotics2022

Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation.

Luca Scimeca, Josie Hughes, Perla Maiolino, Liang He, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Fumiya Iida

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Article in Soft robotics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Luca ScimecaBio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Josie HughesBio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Perla MaiolinoOxford Robotic Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Liang HeMorphological Computation and Learning Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Thrishantha NanayakkaraMorphological Computation and Learning Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Fumiya IidaBio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge · GBImperial College London · GBScience Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical palpation is a diagnostic technique in which physicians use the sense of touch to manipulate the soft human tissue. This can be done to enable the diagnosis of possibly life-threatening conditions, such as cancer. Palpation is still poorly understood because of the complex interaction dynamics between the practitioners' hands and the soft human body. To understand this complex of soft body interactions, we explore robotic palpation for the purpose of diagnosing the presence of abnormal inclusions, or tumors. Using a Bayesian framework for training and classification, we show that the exploration of soft bodies requires complex, multi-axis, palpation trajectories. We also find that this probabilistic approach is capable of rapidly searching the large action space of the robot. This work progresses "robotic" palpation, and it provides frameworks for understanding and exploiting soft body interactions.

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RoboticsTouch PerceptionBayes TheoremHumansPalpationTouchsoft hapticssoft tactile perceptionsoft tissue palpation

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PMID34432994
PMCPMC9347261
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