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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE Sens. 2014 Nov;2014:698–701. doi: 10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985095

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

(a) Control scheme. The potentiometer of the handle mechanism drives the motor of the tip module, thus exposes the microneedle tip. The time derivative of sensed forces is low-pass filtered to identify the instant of vessel puncture, and generate an alarm sound to the operator.