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- title: "A new coefficient-adaptive orthonormal basis function model structure for identifying a class of pneumatic soft actuators"
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  - name: "Xiaochen Wang"
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  - name: "Tao Geng"
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  - name: "Yahya Elsayed"
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  - name: "Tommaso Ranzani"
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  - name: "Constantina Lekakou"
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  year: "2014"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6942610"
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- title: "Safety systems in magnetically driven wireless capsule endoscopy"
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  - name: "T. Mazzocchi"
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  - name: "F. Mulana"
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  year: "2013"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6696794"
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  pages: "3090-3095"
  booktitle: "iros"
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- title: "A modular magnetic platform for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery"
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  - name: "Giuseppe Tortora"
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  - name: "Marco Salerno"
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  - name: "Tommaso Ranzani"
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  - name: "Selene Tognarelli"
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  year: "2013"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610985"
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  pages: "6265-6268"
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- title: "Pop-up tissue retraction mechanism for endoscopic surgery"
  author:
  - name: "S. Becker"
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  - name: "Tommaso Ranzani"
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  - name: "S. Russo"
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  - name: "Robert J. Wood"
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  year: "2017"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8202255"
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  pages: "920-927"
  booktitle: "iros"
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- title: "A three-axial body force sensor for flexible manipulators"
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  - name: "Yohan Noh"
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  - name: "Sina Sareh"
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  - name: "Jungwhan Back"
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  - name: "Emanuele Lindo Secco"
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  pages: "6388-6393"
  booktitle: "icra"
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- title: "STIFF-FLOP surgical manipulator: Mechanical design and experimental characterization of the single module"
  author:
  - name: "Matteo Cianchetti"
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  - name: "Tommaso Ranzani"
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  - name: "Giada Gerboni"
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  - name: "Iris De Falco"
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  - name: "Cecilia Laschi"
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  year: "2013"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6696866"
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  pages: "3576-3581"
  booktitle: "iros"
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- title: "Deployable stabilization mechanisms for endoscopic procedures"
  author:
  - name: "Tommaso Ranzani"
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  - name: "S. Russo"
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  - name: "F. Schwab"
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  year: "2017"
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  pages: "1125-1131"
  booktitle: "icra"
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- title: "Elastic mesh braided worm robot for locomotive endoscopy"
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  - name: "Hongbin Liu"
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  year: "2014"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943724"
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- title: "Snap-on robotic wrist module for enhanced dexterity in endoscopic surgery"
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  - name: "Joshua B. Gafford"
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- title: "A 7.5mm Steiner chain fibre-optic system for multi-segment flex sensing"
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- title: "A novel trocar-less, multi-point of view, magnetic actuated laparoscope"
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- title: "A Miniature Robot for Retraction Tasks under Vision Assistance in Minimally Invasive Surgery"
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- title: "Trans-abdominal Active Magnetic Linkage for robotic surgery: Concept definition and model assessment"
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- title: "A Soft Modular Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Design and Characterization of a Single Module"
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- title: "Soft pop-up mechanisms for micro surgical tools: Design and characterization of compliant millimeter-scale articulated structures"
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