Course

Introduction to Medical Robotics; Medical Robot (MR) History, MR Automation and Navigation Challenges; Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS); MR Visual Servoing; MR-MIS Navigation and Deformation Tracking; Haptic Feedback in MIS; Learning and Perceptual Docking in MIS; Surgical Robotics (Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Manipulators); Oncology Robotics

Learning Objectives

LO1    To understand how medical robots are used in computer integrated minimally invasive
surgery

LO2    To understand the diverse applications of robotics in surgery

LO3    To understand the methodologies for design of medical robots

Course Outcomes

CO1    Ability to understand concepts of medical robot automation

CO2    Ability to evaluate the techniques for Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

CO3    Ability to analyse haptic feedback.

CO4    Ability to develop conceptual surgical robots for a given task

CO-PO Mapping

1. http://www.springer.com/engineering/biomedical+engineering/book/978-1-4419- 1125-4 Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions (by Rosen, Jacob, Hannaford, Blake, Satava, Richard (Eds.))
2. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291478-596X (The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery)
3. http://medrobotics.ri.cmu.edu/node/128439 (Medical Robotics at CMU)
4. http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/medical/ (Medical Robotics at UC Berkeley)
5. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/courses/global-health-innovation/medical- robotics/ (MRes Curriculum at Imperial College)