Professor Simaan Receives NIH Grant
08/30/2007
Professors Nabil Simaan (ME Department) and Peter Allen (CS Department) recently recieved an NIH grant together with Dennis Fowler (Principal Investigator - Department of Surgery at Columbia NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital). This $1.2M 3-year NIH grant is titled “Image Guided In Vivo Tooling Platform for Minimal Access Surgery.” The goal of the grant is to support research on novel image-guided robotic-assisted surgical approaches to Less Invasive Surgery (LIS). This research project will study the design, telemanipulation control, image-guidance, and the efficacy of novel flexible snake-like robots for single-port surgery.
The preliminary work for this project was carried out at ARMA with the participation of Ph.D. student Kai Xu.