Publications by Laura Santos Carreras

Encoded and Crossmodal Thermal Stimulation through a Fingertip-Sized Haptic Display

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras, Simon Gallo, Tristan Hubert Vouga

2015

Towards multimodal Haptics for teleoperation: Design of a Tactile Thermal Display

Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras

Surgical robotics is among the most challenging applications of motion control. Present and future systems are essentially master-slave systems. Our work focuses on force-feedback and haptic interfaces. In this context, we study multimodal haptic interface ...

2012

Tactile Feedback Improves Performance in a Palpation Task: Results in a VR-Based Testbed

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Evren Samur, Laura Santos Carreras, Kaspar Leuenberger

Robotic surgery provides many benefits such as reduced invasiveness and increased dexterity. This comes at the cost of no direct contact between surgeon and patient This physical separation prevents surgeons from performing direct haptic exploration of tis ...

Mit Press2012

Increasing Haptic Fidelity and Ergonomics in Teleoperated Surgery

Laura Santos Carreras

Over the past few decades, surgical procedures have made enormous progress, shifting from traditional open procedures to less and less invasive approaches, with the promise of smaller incisions, less complications, better cosmetic results and shorter recov ...

EPFL2012

Dionis: A novel remote-center-of-motion parallel manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Hannes Bleuler, Reymond Clavel, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras

The large volume and reduced dexterity of current surgical robotic systems are factors that restrict their effective performance. To improve the usefulness of surgical robots in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), a compact and accurate positioning mechanism ...

Ios Press2011

Survey on Surgical Instrument Handle Design: Ergonomics and Acceptance

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Laura Santos Carreras

Minimally invasive surgical approaches have revolutionized surgical care and considerably improved surgical outcomes. The instrumentation has changed significantly from open to laparoscopic and robotic surgery with various usability and ergonomics qualitie ...

2011

Augmented White Cane with Multimodal Haptic Feedback

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Dominique Chapuis, Laura Santos Carreras, Simon Gallo

This paper proposes an instrumented handle with multimodal augmented haptic feedback, which can be integrated into a conventional white cane to extend the haptic exploration range of visually impaired users. The information extracted from the environment t ...

IEEE2010

Ein Greifer für Minimal-invasive Robotisierte Chirurgie mit integriertem Kraftsensor

Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira, Ali Sengül, Mathieu Joseph Charles Stephan

2010

Modeling and Design of a Gripper for a Robotic Surgical System Integrating Force Sensing Capabilities in 4 DOF

Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira, Ali Sengül, Mathieu Joseph Charles Stephan

This paper reports the design of a Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) gripper with four degrees of freedom force sensing capabilities. It will be used to provide force feedback during surgical interventions in which the surgeon will remotely manipulate surgi ...

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Design and Psychophysical Evaluation of a Tactile Pulse Display for Teleoperated Artery Palpation

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Philippe Rétornaz, Laura Santos Carreras, Kaspar Leuenberger

During traditional open procedures, surgeons directly palpate tissues before dissecting them. In this way, they can avoid the accidental damage of hidden arteries that can lead to fatal hemorrhage. New Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) techniques progressi ...

IEEE2010