{"id":365,"date":"2019-10-30T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2019-11-07T01:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:47:23","slug":"ucf-medical-robotics-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/labs\/ucf-medical-robotics-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Medical Robotics Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Location<\/h4>\n

Harris Engineering Center (HEC), RM 263
\nUniversity of Central Florida
\n4000 Central Florida Blvd.
\nOrlando, Florida 32816<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Faculty Members<\/h4>\n
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  • Dr. Charles Hughes (Computer Science)<\/li>\n
  • Dr. Alain Kassab (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)<\/li>\n
  • Dr. Eytan Pollak (ECE)<\/li>\n
  • Dr. Vipul Patel (College of Medicine)<\/li>\n
  • Dr. Zhihua Qu (ECE)<\/li>\n
  • Dr. Roger Smith (Florida Hospital)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Lab Director<\/h4>\n
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    • Dr. Zhihua Qu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      Mission:<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n

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      Robotic Platform & Facility<\/h4>\n

      The main equipment of UCF’s Medical Robotics Laboratory is a dual-arm RAVEN III medical robot:
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      \nResearch Topics<\/b><\/p>\n
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      • Tele-surgical systems, and synchronization under large latency<\/li>\n
      • Heptics<\/li>\n
      • 3-D modeling<\/li>\n
      • Virtual mentoring<\/li>\n
      • Surgical rehearsal<\/li>\n
      • Micro-robots, single-port instruments, dexterous manipulation<\/li>\n
      • Man-machine (surgeon-robot) interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
        \nTeaching Experiments<\/b><\/p>\n
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        • Kinematics<\/li>\n
        • Inverse kinematics<\/li>\n
        • Jacobian<\/li>\n
        • Dynamics<\/li>\n
        • Modeling of organs<\/li>\n
        • Path planning and collision avoidance<\/li>\n
        • Control of robotic manipulators<\/li>\n
        • Force control and heptics<\/li>\n
        • Virtual reality<\/li>\n
        • RAVEN III experiments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
          \nProjects<\/b><\/p>\n
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          • Medical robotics: Case studies<\/li>\n
          • Ethics and safety<\/li>\n
          • Site visit: Florida Hospital at Celebration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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            \nAcknowledgement:<\/b> The lab was supported in part by Florida Biomedical Engineering Partnership..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365\/revisions\/485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}