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Actuation Design for a bone-mounted Parallel Mechanism
In this project, the candidate will support our interdisciplinary team in stabilizing and controlling the end-effector of a robotic endoscope which is guided by a serial robot.
Keywords: Mechatronics, Surgical Robotics, Robotic Endoscope, Stabilization, Robotics and Control.
Context: The Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE) has recently been awarded a Flagship project from the Werner Siemens Foundation. This interdisciplinary project called MIRACLE (Minimally Invasive Robot Assisted Computer-guided LaserosteotomE) is devoted to the development of a minimally invasive robotic endoscope that allows cutting bone with laser light.
Task description: In this project, you will support our interdisciplinary team in stabilizing and
controlling the end-effector of a robotic endoscope which is guided by a serial robot. The aim is to obtain high precision and accuracy in the robot’s pose to enable precise laser cuts despite present disturbances. You will redesign and improve the actuation of a mechanism for endeffector positioning and stabilization which has been designed and developed recently.
Context: The Department of Biomedical Engineering (DBE) has recently been awarded a Flagship project from the Werner Siemens Foundation. This interdisciplinary project called MIRACLE (Minimally Invasive Robot Assisted Computer-guided LaserosteotomE) is devoted to the development of a minimally invasive robotic endoscope that allows cutting bone with laser light.
Task description: In this project, you will support our interdisciplinary team in stabilizing and controlling the end-effector of a robotic endoscope which is guided by a serial robot. The aim is to obtain high precision and accuracy in the robot’s pose to enable precise laser cuts despite present disturbances. You will redesign and improve the actuation of a mechanism for endeffector positioning and stabilization which has been designed and developed recently.
Your tasks will be:
1. To improve the actuation concept of the current design
2. Build a functional to scale prototype of the mechanism
3. Adapt the current feedback control to your design
4. Test and evaluate the functionality of your prototype
Your tasks will be: 1. To improve the actuation concept of the current design 2. Build a functional to scale prototype of the mechanism 3. Adapt the current feedback control to your design 4. Test and evaluate the functionality of your prototype