Engineering and Imaging Basics for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

1. Introduction: Basics of MIS, history of robotic surgery
2. Imaging for MIS
3. Techniques for imaging in MIS
4. Registration and navigation including examples
5. Teleoperation, Augmented and Virtual Reality for Robotic Surgery
6. Robotic system design and control including autonomy (implementation of control systems in robotic surgery) – technical annex on control fundamentals
7. Instruments design (including continuum robots) and manufacturing (including 3D printing) , calibration, control architectures
8. Force sensing and feedback control
9. Human-Robot Interaction and Ergonomics in MIS
10. Surgical applications and scenarios (colorectal, urology, specific requirements, etc)
11. Review on MIS robotic systems - Commercial and Research Prototypes
12. Ethical Issues in robots for MIS

Sanja Dogramadzi is leading Healthcare Robotics group (REACH) in Bristol Robotics Laboratory. She has a degree in Mechanical and Control Engineering and holds a PhD in medical robotics from University of Newcastle. Before joining UWE, she worked at University of Newcastle and University of Leeds.
Sanja's research interests include design and control of surgical robots for minimally invasive fracture surgery and robot-assisted MIS, rehabilitation robots, physical assistance robots and safe and ethical human-robot interaction. She has led and coordinated many research projects funded by UK councils, Innovate UK, NIHR and European Commission and have been awarded more than £4M in the last five years.
Recent research includes EC funded SMARTsurg project, EPSRC funded I-DRESS project, H2020 Marie Curie ITN Socrates and the technical leadership for Innovate UK funded CHIRON project. Sanja holds patents for work in robot-assisted fracture surgery and motion sensing surface for radiotherapy treatment.
Elena De Momi received her MSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2002, PhD in Bioengineering in 2006, currently Associate Professor in the Electronic Information and Bioengineering Department (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. She is co-founder of the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory, in 2008, being responsible of the Medical Robotics section. IEEE Senior Member, she is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. She is responsible for the lab course in Medical Robotics and of the course on Clinical Technology Assessment of the MSc degree in Biom. Eng. at Politecnico di Milano and she serves in the board committee of the PhD course in Bioengineering. Her academic interests include computer vision and image-processing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and simulators, teleoperation, hap