Continuum Robots with Situational Awareness: Enabling Sensory-Guided Control and Interventions at the Macro and Micro Scale
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This is a virtual seminar being held via Zoom
Nabil Simaan Professor, Vanderbilt University
Abstract: Emerging surgical paradigms such as natural orifice surgery and minimally invasive surgery in deep surgical sites present new challenges to surgeons and engineers. These new challenges stem from the limitations of surgeon’s sensing, perception, and incomplete situational awareness. The speaker will present the concept of complementary perception and assistive behaviors as a means for increasing safety and overcoming these barriers. He will discuss how continuum robots and soft implantable devices can be endowed with distal tip force sensing, contact detection, and micron-scale motion resolution that enables in-vivo deployment of cellular scale imaging modalities such as optical coherence tomography. We will focus on our efforts in modeling, designing and controlling intelligent surgical robots capable of sensing the environment and using the sensed information for task execution assistance and for situational awareness augmentation. Sample motivating applications in the areas of minimally invasive surgery of the upper airways, cochlear implant surgery, trans-urethral resection of bladder tumors, and OCT-guided retinal micro-surgery will be used to elucidate the potential of these robots.
About the Speaker: Nabil Simaan (Ph.D, 2002 Technion, Israel) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN. He has served as an Editor for IEEE ICRA, associate editor for IEEE TRO, Associate Editor for ASME JMR, and editorial board member for Robotica and a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics. His research interests include parallel robotics, continuum robotics and design of new robotic systems for dexterous and image-guided surgical robotics. His recent works focuses on use of intraoperative sensing for enabling complementary situational awareness in robot-assisted surgery. In 2020 he was elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to dexterous continuum robotics for surgery. In 2021 he was elected ASME Fellow for pioneering contributions to the modeling, design and practice of continuum and soft robots for surgery.
Hosted by Professor Haijun Su, Department of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/92268060736?pwd=M2Rjc3FLSW04Rkw5N2l0K05weWVXZz09
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