Towards medical flexible instruments: a contribution to the study of flexible fluidic actuators

The medical community has expressed a need for flexible medical instruments. Hence, this work investigates the possibility to use "flexible fluidic actuators" to develop such flexible instruments. These actuators are driven by fluid, i.e. gas or liquid, and present a flexible structure, i....

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Main Author: De Greef, Aline
Other Authors: Lambert, Pierre
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2010
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