{"id":5759,"date":"2017-06-28T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2017-06-28T20:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:42:23","slug":"med-lab-members-attend-international-conference-on-robotics-and-automation-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/med-lab-members-attend-international-conference-on-robotics-and-automation-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"MED Lab members attend International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three members of the 国产原创 Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MEDLab) attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last week in Singapore.
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\"RobertAssociate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster<\/strong>, the lab director, was invited to give a talk on his recent research, while Ph.D. student Patrick Anderson<\/strong> and postdoctoral scholar Loris Fichera<\/strong> each presented a contributed paper.<\/p>\n

In his talk, entitled \u201cSingle Port Robots as Hand-Held Tools \u2026 and When to do the Opposite,<\/em>\u201d Professor Webster<\/strong> discussed advantages and disadvantages of single-port robotic surgery. He presented a novel concept for a reconfigurable robot made of little needle-sized tentacles that are introduced into the body through multiple tiny skin incisions small enough that can be simply closed with a Band-Aid to perform complex procedures such as ablation of lung tumors
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\"PatrickPatrick Anderson<\/strong> presented this system in more detail in his contributed talk, entitled \u201cContinuum Reconfigurable Parallel Robots for Surgery: Shape Sensing and State Estimation With Uncertainty.\u201d<\/em> In addition to this talk, Patrick also presented another paper (Real-Time Redundancy Resolution for Concentric Tube Robots to Avoid Elastic Instability<\/em>, authors: Patrick Anderson, Richard Hendrick and Robert Webster III<\/em>) at the C4 Surgical Robotics Workshop, an event associated with the conference and part of ICRA\u2019s official program, and won the best poster award, sponsored by Intuitive Surgical.
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\"\"Loris Fichera<\/strong> presented a miniature robotic endoscope aimed to provide visualization inside the ear passing through the nose. This device has the potential to provide accurate diagnoses and eliminate the need for exploratory surgery for many patients suffering from middle ear disease \u2013 about 1 in 50 people get some form of ME disease at some point during their lifetime. This is a joint project between VU and VUMC; Loris\u2019 home desk is inside the Medical Center, where he works side by side with ear surgeons.
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Both Patrick\u2019s and Loris\u2019 papers are now published in Robotics and Automation Letters<\/em> \u2013 links below.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick\u2019s Paper: http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7872425\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Loris\u2019 Paper: http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7855722\/<\/a><\/p>\n

C4 Surgical Robotics Workshop: http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/c4r.html<\/a><\/p>\n

MED Lab:\u00a0http:\/\/research.vuse.vanderbilt.edu\/MEDLab\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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