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Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment (2018)
Journal Article
Tzemanaki, A., Al, G. A., Melhuish, C., & Dogramadzi, S. (2018). Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5(JUN), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00062

© 2018 Tzemanaki, Al, Melhuish and Dogramadzi. This paper presents the development of a wearable Fingertip Haptic Device (FHD) that can provide cutaneous feedback via a Variable Compliance Platform (VCP). The FHD includes an inertial measurement unit... Read More about Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment.

Personalized robot assistant for support in dressing (2018)
Journal Article
Jevtic, A., Valle, A. F., Alenya, G., Chance, G., Caleb-Solly, P., Dogramadzi, S., & Torras, C. (2018). Personalized robot assistant for support in dressing. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2018.2817283

Robot-assisted dressing is performed in close physical interaction with users who may have a wide range of physical characteristics and abilities. Design of user adaptive and personalized robots in this context is still indicating limited, or no cons... Read More about Personalized robot assistant for support in dressing.

What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chance, G., Caleb-Solly, P., Jevtic, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant. In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (284-291). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172315

© 2017 IEEE. Robots that can assist in activities of daily living (ADL) such as dressing assistance, need to be capable of intuitive and safe interaction. Vision systems are often used to provide information on the position and movement of the robot... Read More about What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant.

Image-Guided Surgical Robotic System for Percutaneous Reduction of Joint Fractures (2017)
Journal Article
Dagnino, G., Georgilas, I., Morad, S., Gibbons, P., Tarassoli, P., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). Image-Guided Surgical Robotic System for Percutaneous Reduction of Joint Fractures. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 45(11), 2648-2662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-017-1901-x

© 2017, The Author(s). Complex joint fractures often require an open surgical procedure, which is associated with extensive soft tissue damages and longer hospitalization and rehabilitation time. Percutaneous techniques can potentially mitigate these... Read More about Image-Guided Surgical Robotic System for Percutaneous Reduction of Joint Fractures.

Intra-operative fiducial-based CT/fluoroscope image registration framework for image-guided robot-assisted joint fracture surgery (2017)
Journal Article
Dagnino, G., Georgilas, I., Morad, S., Gibbons, P., Tarassoli, P., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). Intra-operative fiducial-based CT/fluoroscope image registration framework for image-guided robot-assisted joint fracture surgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 12(8), 1383-1397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-017-1602-9

© 2017, The Author(s). Purpose: Joint fractures must be accurately reduced minimising soft tissue damages to avoid negative surgical outcomes. To this regard, we have developed the RAFS surgical system, which allows the percutaneous reduction of intr... Read More about Intra-operative fiducial-based CT/fluoroscope image registration framework for image-guided robot-assisted joint fracture surgery.

A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance (2017)
Journal Article
Chance, G., Jevtić, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00013

© 2017 Chance, Jevtić, Caleb-Solly and Dogramadzi. Assistive robots have a great potential to address issues related to an aging population and an increased demand for caregiving. Successful deployment of robots working in close proximity with people... Read More about A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance.

Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system (2017)
Journal Article
Georgilas, I., Dagnino, G., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424905X17400086

This paper presents a safety analysis of a Robotic Fracture Surgery System using the Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). It focuses particularly on hazards caused by the human in the loop. The robotic system and operating staff are modeled inc... Read More about Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system.

Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors (2016)
Journal Article
Pipe, T., Winstone, B., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A. G., Callaway, M., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(3), 848-857. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2016.2627798

© 2016 IEEE. Here, we present a method for lump characterization using a bio-inspired remote tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. While current capsule endoscopy utilizes cameras to diagnose lesions on the surface of the gastrointestinal tract l... Read More about Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors.

Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery (2016)
Journal Article
Dagnino, G., Georgilas, I., Köhler, P., Morad, S., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2016). Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 11(10), 1831-1843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-016-1418-z

© 2016, The Author(s). Purpose: In the surgical treatment for lower-leg intra-articular fractures, the fragments have to be positioned and aligned to reconstruct the fractured bone as precisely as possible, to allow the joint to function correctly ag... Read More about Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery.

Development of a novel functional electrical stimulation system for hand rehabilitation using feedback control (2016)
Journal Article
Ruppel, M., Seel, T., & Dogramadzi, S. (2016). Development of a novel functional electrical stimulation system for hand rehabilitation using feedback control. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2016-July, 1135-1139. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523784

© 2016 IEEE. Worldwide stroke is a leading cause for disability and the demand for rehabilitation devices and everyday life assistance is still high. To address this demand, we consider a combination of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) of the... Read More about Development of a novel functional electrical stimulation system for hand rehabilitation using feedback control.