ICRA 2010 Workshop: Meso-Scale Robotics for Medical Interventions

May 3, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska - Full day workshop
Workshop room: DC Tubughnenq 3

Call for Posters (Details)

Organizers

Jaydev P. Desai Arianna Menciassi
Associate Professor Associate Professor of Biomedical Robotics
Director - RAMS Laboratory Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Department of Mechanical Engineering P.za Martiri della Liberta
University of Maryland 56127 Pisa, Italy
College Park, MD 20742
         
Email: jaydev@umd.edu Email: arianna@sssup.it
Tel: 301-405-4427    Tel: +39 050 883418/400
Fax: 301-314-9477 Fax: +39 050 883497
Website: http://rams.umd.edu Website: http://www-crim.sssup.it

Abstract

Full Day workshop: There has been a significant development in medical robotics from basic research to product development, evaluation, and feasibility studies. Surgical robotics strives to make surgical interventions less invasive, less risky for both patients and clinicians, more efficient, less costly, and capable of achieving better patient outcomes. While medical robotics in the early stages was primarily targeted towards large-scale interventions, the trend nowadays is towards developing small-scale devices. The focus of this workshop is primarily geared towards meso-scale (order of 1mm-100mm at most) devices for medical interventions. Rapid progress in recent years in computer processing power, faster communication capabilities for wirelessly controlling devices, coupled with high-resolution imaging capabilities such as CT, PET, and MRI, has enabled the evaluation and testing of these devices more easily than was previously possible. With the current trends in micro- and meso-scale device development, it seems likely that the current generation of operating robots will be replaced by a second generation that meets more closely the requirements of in situ diagnosis and treatment. These robots will be easily reconfigured to progress rapidly from one patient and procedure to another. They will also enable many clinicians to perform procedures with competence that only a few clinicians now have; they will also allow clinicians to perform procedures that cannot be done with existing technology.

List of Presenters

List of Topics

Meso-scale robotics in surgery; Image-guided interventions; Meso-scale design rules, components and manufacturing; Hybrid microrobots for diagnosis and therapy; Macro-meso-micro teleoperation and control in surgery.

Primary/Secondary Audience

Many PhD students and young researchers are active in the field of medical robotics and micro- and meso-scale robotics for biomedical applications. In addition to these, it is anticipated that participants from both academia and industry from US, Europe, and Asia will be present.

Workshop Schedule

Meso-scale robotics for medical interventions
9:30am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:30pm

  9:30 -  9:40: Jaydev P. Desai and Arianna Menciassi
Introduction to the workshop and motivations behind
Enabling technologies for meso-scale robotics in medical interventions
  9:40 - 10:15: Koji Ikuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Nano/Micro Robotics for Future Biomedicine and Life Science
10:15 - 10:30: Posters Presentation (5 minutes x 2 + 5 minutes questions)
10:30 - 10:45: Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:20: Fumihito Arai, Tohoku University, Japan
Meso-scale Robot Systems for Biomedical Innovation Based on Photolithographic Technology
11:20 - 11:55: Metin Sitti, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Compliant and untethered magnetic miniature robots for GI tract
11:55 - 12:30: Arianna Menciassi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Endoluminal instrumentation: from miniature to micro robots for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
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Applications of meso scale robotics in medical interventions
14:00 - 14:35: Jaydev P. Desai, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Meso-scale MRI-guided Robotic Interventions
14:35 - 15:10: J. O. Park, Chonnam National University, South Korea
On the way to the Miniaturization of Micro/Nano Robots
15:10 - 15:45: Mamoru Mitsuishi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Surgical Systems Employing Nano and Micro Phenomena
15:45 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:35: Sylvain Martel, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Untethered MRI-trackable Mesoscale to Nanoscale Robots Designed for Interventions
in the Human Vasculature
16:35 - 17:10: Brad Nelson, Zoltan Nagy, ETHZ, Switzerland
On the Feasibility of Magnetic Self-Assembly for Swallowable Modular Robots
17:10 - 17:30: Round Table and Q&A from students
(informal, with all speakers attending and Arianna and Jaydev as moderators)