The Robotics, Automation, Manipulation, and Sensing (RAMS) laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park, focuses primarily on research in the areas of Medical Robotics both at the macro and micro scale. Specifically, RAMS lab research is targeted towards:
- Haptic (sense of touch) interfaces for Robot-assisted Surgery
- Reality-based soft-tissue modeling for Surgical Simulation
- Model-based teleoperation in Robot-assisted surgery, and
- Cell manipulation and Force feedback interfaces for Cellular Surgery.
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling cellular level interaction and understanding the effect of haptic feedback at the micro scale. To “feel” these cellular level interactions, we are also exploring developing haptic devices that can provide realistic feedback.