TIMC laboratory (Université Joseph Fourier / CNRS)

Major projects and activities in Biomedical Robotics

Project Name and Acronym

PADyC Passive Arm with Dynamic Constraints

Duration

 

Web site

http://www-timc.imag.fr/gmcao

Sponsoring promoter

 

Funding programme

Internal resources

Keywords

Synergy, safety, man/machine cooperation

Co-ordinating group

TIMC - Computer Assisted Medical Interventions Group

Partners (group name, category*)

Sinters (robotic industry)

CLIPS (laboratory - group on man-machine interfaces)

Objectives

Design, develop and validate a robot for cooperation in surgical applications

Relevant activities

Design of specific joints (two patents from the university)

Software development and configuration space computation

User interaction

Achieved biomedical robotic prototypes/ products

3 dof laboratory demonstrated prototype

6 dof prototype - validation to be performed

User/clinical trials

objectives

Demonstrate the ability to help the surgeon using PADyC technology

robotic systems

6 dof prototype

methodologies

Tests on phantoms then animals before humans

involved users (number and category)

Cooperation for specifications with several surgeons (ENT, orthopaedic, cranio-facial, cardiac)

Tests of the system for a cardiac surgery application (pericardial puncture)

main results

In progress

clinical partners

Grenoble University Hospital

other relevant information

 

 

 

Project Name and Acronym

TER (Télé-échographie Robotisée)

Duration

2 years

Web site

Not yet available

Sponsoring promoter

French government

Funding programme

Research and technology for health care

Keywords

Compliant robot, tele-diagnosis, tele-echography

Co-ordinating group

Sinters Company - Toulouse - France

Partners (group name, category*)

TIMC laboratory (research) - Grenoble

LVR Laboratory (research) - Bourges

France Telecom R&D (Industry) - Grenoble

PRAXIM (Inudstry) - Grenoble

Grenoble university hospital

Tours Hospital

Objectives

Develop and demonstrate a robot for tele-echography.

Relevant activities

Mechanical design

Robot control and programming

Tele-communications

Man-machine interface

Achieved biomedical robotic prototypes/ products

Prototype system

User/clinical trials

objectives

Demonstrate robotic tele-echography

robotic systems

 

methodologies

 

involved users (number and category)

Radiologists and gynecologists

main results

In progress

clinical partners

2 hospitals

other relevant information

 

 

Summary of products, systems, prototypes

Name

Short description°

PADyC robot

6 dof prototype for surgical assistance

TER robot

6 dof prototype for tele-echography

 

 

Summary of current partners (technological, clinical, user)

Group name

Category*

Contacts

Sinters

Industry

Olivier Merigeaux

PRAXIM

Industry

Stéphane Lavallée

France telecom R&D

Industry

 

Grenoble hospital

Clinical

 

Available laboratories/equipment

Electronic laboratory

 

Mechanical laboratory

 

Software laboratory

PC platforms, Visual C++, C, QNX, RTX and Unix workstations

Robotic equipment

Prototypes cf. supra

Puma 260

Articulated passive arm

Other

 

Related publications

O. Schneider, J. Troccaz, O. Chavanon, D. Blin

PADyC : a synergistic robot for cardiac puncturing

IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, 2000

 

J. Troccaz, M. Peshkin, and B. Davies.

Guiding systems for Computer-assisted Surgery (CAS) : introducing synergistic devices and discussing the different approaches.

Medical Image Analysis, 2(2), pp101-119, 1998.

 

J. Troccaz and Y. Delnondedieu.

Semi-active guiding systems in surgery. A two-dof prototype of the passive arm with dynamic constraints (PADyC).

Mechatronics, 6(4):399--421, June 1996.

 

 

 



* Among: technological developers, technological researchers, clinical researcher, service providers, users

* Among: technological developers, technological researchers, clinical researcher, service providers, users

° Please insert photographs, if available