Image Guided in-vivo Tooling Platform for Minimal Acess Surgery
Active Personnel:
Jienan Ding (Post Doc, starting 6/2008)
Kai Xu, Ph.D. Candidate
Roger Goldman, M.D.-Ph.D. student
This 3-year NIH-funded project is an ongoing collaboration between ARMA, the Department of Surgery, and and Computer Science at Columbia University.
Our project goals are to design insertable in-vivo robotic platform for single port surgery (less invasive surgery). This robotic platform is capable of bi-manual dexterous manipulation while providing stereo vision guidance. The system is also being designed for supporting several modalities of energy delivery, and sensory data collection.
Publications
Xu, K., Goldman, R., Ding, J., Allen, P., Fowler, D., Simaan, N., “System Design of an Insertable Robotic Effector Platform for Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery,” accepted for publication in 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), 2009.
