Surgical accuracy of the hand-held instruments depends on the active compensation of
disturbance and tremor. Physiological tremor is one of the main causes for imprecision in micro-…

Piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, and shape memory alloy actuators are gaining importance
in high-frequency precision applications constrained by space. Their intrinsic hysteretic …

Tremor is the root cause for human imprecision during microsurgery. Accurate filtering of
physiological tremor is extremely important for compensation in robotics assisted microsurgical …

Autofocusing and feature detection are two essential processes for performing automated
biological cell manipulation tasks. In this paper, we have introduced a technique capable of …

… Win Tun Latt received the BE degree in electronics from the Yangon Technological
University, Myanmar, in 2000, and the M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering degree from the …

Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) provides high-resolution in vivo imaging
for intraoperative tissue characterization. Maintaining a desired contact force between …

With the increasing popularity of actuators involving smart materials like piezoelectric, control
of such materials becomes important. The existence of the inherent hysteretic behavior …

Three-dimensional positioning and orientation of a biological cell under a microscope is an
essential step for cell injection and biopsy. The conventional manual cell manipulation and …

Active physiological tremor compensation instruments have been under research and
development recently. The sensing unit of the instruments provides information on three degrees-…

Position sensing with inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes usually requires
other aided sensors or prior knowledge of motion characteristics to remove position drift …