Location
Harris Engineering Center (HEC), RM 263
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, Florida 32816
Faculty Members
- Dr. Charles Hughes (Computer Science)
- Dr. Alain Kassab (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
- Dr. Eytan Pollak (ECE)
- Dr. Vipul Patel (College of Medicine)
- Dr. Zhihua Qu (ECE)
- Dr. Roger Smith (Florida Hospital)
Lab Director
- Dr. Zhihua Qu
Mission: The Medical Robotics Laboratory is to bring together a team of faculty from UCF and local hospitals, to educate our students the state-of-art techniques in medical robotic surgery, and to conduct multidisciplinary research in tele-surgery, mixed and augmented virtual reality, surgical simulation and rehearsal, virtual mentoring, and other technologies of medical robotics.
Robotic Platform & Facility
The main equipment of UCF’s Medical Robotics Laboratory is a dual-arm RAVEN III medical robot:
Research Topics
- Tele-surgical systems, and synchronization under large latency
- Heptics
- 3-D modeling
- Virtual mentoring
- Surgical rehearsal
- Micro-robots, single-port instruments, dexterous manipulation
- Man-machine (surgeon-robot) interface
Teaching Experiments
- Kinematics
- Inverse kinematics
- Jacobian
- Dynamics
- Modeling of organs
- Path planning and collision avoidance
- Control of robotic manipulators
- Force control and heptics
- Virtual reality
- RAVEN III experiments
Projects
- Medical robotics: Case studies
- Ethics and safety
- Site visit: Florida Hospital at Celebration
Acknowledgement: The lab was supported in part by Florida Biomedical Engineering Partnership..