Increasing accessibility to medical robotics education

Author

Cao, Caroline G L ; Danahy, Ethan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Tufts Univ., Medford, MA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

11-12 April 2011

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

53

Abstract

To overcome existing barriers in medical robotics education, this paper presents work done during a joint-collaboration project that creates a new educational toolset and associated curriculum for demonstrating telesurgery applications. Created using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics set, programmed with LabVIEW, and capable of doing real-time closed-loop control over large distances, the project team developed a product aimed at influencing 6^th to 8^th grade classrooms by exposing the students to engineering design and communication topics within the real-world application of medical robotics.

Keywords

closed loop systems; control engineering education; intelligent robots; medical robotics; mobile robots; programmable controllers; surgery; telerobotics; virtual instrumentation; LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics set; LabVIEW; engineering design; joint collaboration project; medical robotics education; real time closed loop control; telesurgery application; Education; Haptic interfaces; Robot sensing systems; Surgery; Telerobotics; Visualization; LEGO; medical robotic; telesurgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2011 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Woburn, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-482-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753481

Filename

5753481