Lab Development for Hands-On Medical Robotics Education

This project focuses on developing hands-on lab components for a new Medical Robotics course for Winter 2025. The course aims to introduce concepts such as manipulation, control, sensing, human-robot interaction, and safety in medical robotics, integrating case studies from a value-based healthcare perspective. The E3 Grant will allow us to develop lab kits designed to simulate real-world scenarios, such as exerting controlled forces on elastic tissues and managing time delays in teleoperative systems. Additionally, the project will incorporate simulation-based labs using open-source physics engines, where students will implement virtual fixture constraints and interact with them using haptic input devices. The hands-on experience gained through these labs aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, providing robotics and engineering students with the critical tactile skills needed in medical robotics.

Project Team

Funding

This team was awarded $10,000 in funding in Summer 2024.