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SUMMARY:Modeling\, Planning\, and Control for Robot-Assisted Medical Inter
 ventions
DTSTART:20131017T141500
DTSTAMP:20260406T182922Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Allison Okamura\, Stanford University\nBio: Allison M. O
 kamura received the BS degree from the University of California at Berkele
 y in 1994\, and the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in 1996 an
 d 2000\, respectively\, all in mechanical engineering. She is currently an
  Associate Professor in the mechanical engineering department at Stanford 
 University. She was previously Professor and Vice Chair of mechanical engi
 neering at Johns Hopkins University. She has been an associate editor of t
 he IEEE Transactions on Haptics\, an editor of the IEEE International Conf
 erence on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board\, and co-chai
 r of the IEEE Haptics Symposium. Her awards include the 2009 IEEE Technica
 l Committee on Haptics Early Career Award\, the 2005 IEEE Robotics and Aut
 omation Society Early Academic Career Award\, and the 2004 NSF CAREER Awar
 d. She is an IEEE Fellow. Her academic interests include haptics\, teleope
 ration\,virtual environments and simulators\, medical robotics\, neuromech
 anics and rehabilitation\, prosthetics\, and engineering education. Outsid
 e academia\, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children\, 
 running\, and playing ice hockey. For more information about her research\
 , please see the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) La
 boratory website.\nTalk hosted by NCCR Robotics \nMany medical interventio
 ns today are qualitatively and quantitatively limited by human physical an
 d cognitive capabilities. This talk will discuss several robot-assisted in
 tervention techniques that will extend humans’ ability to carry out inte
 rventions more accurately and less invasively. First\, I will discuss the 
 development of minimally invasive systems that deliver therapy by steering
  needles throughdeformable tissue and around internal obstacles to reach s
 pecified targets.Second\, I will review recent results in haptic (touch) f
 eedback for robot-assisted teleoperated surgery\, in particular the mappin
 g and display of tissue mechanical properties. Finally\, I will describe r
 ecent work using dynamic models of the body to drive novel rehabilitation 
 strategies. All ofthese systems incorporate one or more key elements of ro
 botic interventions:\n\n		quantitative descriptions of patient state\,\n	\
 n		the use of models to plan interventions\,\n	\n		the design of devices a
 nd control systems that connect information to physical action\, and\n	\n	
 	the inclusion of human input in a natural way.\n
LOCATION:CM1105 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=CM+1+105
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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