Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160100714
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Biomechanics Meets Robotics: Methods for Accurate and Fast Needle Targeting. This project intends to create a novel integrated framework for biomedical systems that can accurately target a needle. Accurate surgical targeting means less trauma and better patient outcomes. Needles are used in over half of all surgical procedures, but up to 38 per cent of these are affected by targeting errors. Achieving sub-millimetre accuracy is extremely difficult because inserting a needle displaces the tissue and moves the target. How, then, can ultra-fine targeting be achieved? This project plans to integrate non-linear biomechanical models that predict tissue motion with accurate and principled motion control. It seeks to create new methods for surgical robots that will predict target motion and guide a needle to accurately intersect the target.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 03-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $490,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biomechanical Engineering | Biomedical Engineering | Control Systems, Robotics and Automation | Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Medical Instruments | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences |
