Haptic Simulation of Robotically Assisted Surgical Procedures
Version
française/French version
Contract Length
A 13-month postdoc / research engineer position, available now, in the framework of the
ENDOXIROB project, labelled by the French Framework for Health
Technologies.
Context
The Xir team (surgeons and computer
science research scientists) leads an ambitious program of research and
development in the key areas of robotics surgery: modeling of deformable
organs, planning & simulation of robotics procedures and safe &
real-time integration with enhanced reality.
Today, this research is performed in collaboration with Pr.
Alain Carpentier's heart surgery team, Hôpital Européen Georges
Pompidou & the Epidaure (Medical
Imaging), Prisme (Algorithmical
Geometry), RobotVis (Computer
Vision) research teams at INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
with the objectives to demonstrate the validity of the theory by
experimentation about concrete problems in teleopearated heart surgery and by
developping algorithms in cooperation with industrial partners.
Mission profile: Haptic Simulation of Robotically Assisted Surgical Procedures
We want to extend the features of the simulator, currently designed in the
team, for robotically assisted surgical procedures. For each patient, the
simulator permits to emulate the effects of the robotics tools on the patient
and thus validate the surgical procedure before the real procedure is
performed in the Operating Room. In addition, the educational purpose of the
simulator is to teach surgeons new surgical gestures.
Today, a dedicated interface provides the surgeon with visual information,
allowing a direct manipulation of the surgical robotics tools (models of
a teleoperated system are used) to perform the surgical procedure on the
patients' models. The clinical assessment of the surgical procedure is performed in
different clinical domains.
The objectif of the project is to exploit the use of force feedback in the
simulator using a haptic system available on the surgeon's side (integrated in
the master console). The adjonction of tactile information will allow to
constrain the surgeon's motions within a free surgical workspace.
A 3D model of the operational space (the patient) will be used to determine
first the admissible motions, then, to plan the motions, and finally to compute
the repulsive forces required for the haptic feedback perceived by the surgeon.
Candidate profile
- PhD Thesis or Engineer diploma in Robotics, Computer Vision or Computer Graphics
- C/C++ language
- Motivation for system integration, team work and for the medical domain, with clinical validation.
Salary
The salary will be based on the candidate's qualifications.
Information & application
Ève Coste-Manière
http://www.inria.fr/chir