ERC: Engineering Research Center for Computer- Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology
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| Abstract | This report summarizes our three-month research experience in Munich, Germany under the NSF IREE program. The goal of our project under this program is to develop a stand-alone actuation and control unit for the da Vinci Surgical System's EndoWrist instruments. The developed device serves as a platform for the development of new da Vinci surgical instruments and surgical procedures using existing instruments without the master robots. The joint effort from MIMED (TUM) and CISST-ERC (JHU) resulted in an inexpensive software and hardware solution that is easily replicated, and can be used in surgical environment for instrumentation research. We hope that this platform will lead to future collaboration between the two research centers and other surgical robotics research teams. |
| Contributor | Mourad Ouzzani
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| Bio | Marcin Balicki received a BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering and M.Eng from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2001 and 2004, respectively. In 2004 he became an adjunct instructor of mechanical engineering at The Cooper Union and concurrently worked as researcher in the area of surgical navigation at the New York University School of Medicine, Orthopaedics Department. Currently, he is in his 2nd year of the Computer Science PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University. His interests lie in surgical robotics, biosensing technologies, human-computer interfaces, and multimedia art.
Tian Xia received the BSE in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 2006. Currently, he is in his 2nd year of the PhD Program in Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Sponsored By | NSF EEC-9731748 |
| Cite this work | Researchers should cite this work as follows: Marcin Balicki and Tian Xia, "ERC: Engineering Research Center for Computer- Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology", Trip report presented at the NSF IREE 2007 Grantees Conference, October 30 - November 1, 2007, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
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