About Endocas

• Context
• Mission
• Strategic Approach
• Organization Of Research Activities
• Consortium
• The Structure
• Funding
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Research

• Surgical Navigators

• Robotic Instruments

• Simulation and Deformable Models

• Surgical Gesture: Evaluation, Recognition and Automation

• Technical-Economic models for the assessment of new technologies in surgery

Education

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People

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Events

• ESGAR 2005
• Vriphys05
• Biorob2006
• Borsa della ricerca
• ECR 2007
• Medmatic@

Improvement of surgical instruments requires integration of sensors and actuators in the instruments. The aim of this part of the research is the re-design of traditional surgical tools and the development of new mechatronic and robotic tools, able to "feel" the interaction with the working environment, to improve the dexterity of MIS performance, and to actively co-operate with the surgeon during the intervention.

The hand-held robotic tool and the virtual simulator used for testing different HMI

The integration of intelligent tools in an augmented reality system amplifies the capabilities of the systems taken in stand-alone configuration. The main objective of the research is the development of interactive navigation systems that implement a closed loop with robotic and mechatronic tools. In such navigation system the commands of the surgeon concerning the control of tools movements will be filtered on the basis of the joint elaboration of the intraoperative and preoperative information. With the active mechanism the safety of the procedure will result further increased by taking advantage from the fact that surgeon and navigation system will control the intelligent tools in a synergistic way.

Functional Scheme of an interactive navigation system

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Published on: 2005-04-28 (3016 reads)