Autonomy capability development for surgical robots

Tamas Haidegger

Óbuda University / ACMIT

WHEN: October 27, 2022 at 2:30pm-3:30pm
WHERE: Dupuis 217
(This seminar is also offered online.)

This talk is co-sponsored by IEEE Kingston Section.

Abstract

In these challenging times, we turn more often to technological solutions to ease the burden of clinical treatment. Robotics in healthcare applications has a stunning 40 years history already, yet now there is an unprecedented rise in applications and systems. Surgical robotics is entering new domains, requiring highly sophisticated manipulation skills and decision making. The newest generation of surgical robots does not only function as an agile extension of the human eyes and hands, but also becoming a skillful and smart partner of their human counterpart. Legislation and standardization activities are gradually following the technical development, striving to establish a safe and reliable environment for Surgical Robots 4.0. This talk overviews the most important recent trends in the field, identifying some of the key enabling technologies and economic considerations. A critical analysis to the state of the art is also provided.

The background of the talk will be these two articles recently published:

About the Speaker

Tamás Haidegger received his MSc degrees from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, then PhD in medical robotics. His main field of research is on medical technologies, control/teleoperation of surgical robots, image-guided therapy and digital health technologies. Currently, he is associate professor at Óbuda University, serving as the director of the University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), and as the technical lead of medical robotics research at the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics. Besides, he is a research area manager at the Austrian Center of Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT), working on minimally invasive surgical simulation and training, medical robotics and usability/workflow assessment through ontologies. Tamás is the co-founder of a university spin-off—HandInScan—focusing on objective hand hygiene control in the medical environment, member of the World Health Organization POPS group. He is an active member of various other professional organizations, including the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (serving as an associate VP), IEEE SMC, IEEE EMBC, IEEE SA and euRobotics aisbl, holding leadership positions in the IEEE Hungary Section as well. He is a national delegate to the ISO TC299 standardization committee focusing on the safety and performance of medical robots and the ISO TC 304 working on hand hygiene and patient safety standards, furthermore, involved in the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Acta Polytechnica Hungarica and Associate Editor to the IEEE Trans. on Medical Robotics and Bionics, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and the Intl. J. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Tamas is the author and co-author of over 250 scientific papers, books, articles across the various domains of biomedical engineering, with over 2000 independent citations to his work. He has been running a professional blog on medical robotic technologies for over 15 years.