Project Staff

Research Interests

Not available.

Projects

Medical/Surgical Robotics

OPTICAL MICRO-MOTION TRACKER

Detecting micro motion of a microsurgical instrument in real time to aid training of new surgeons and discover more findings about tremor nature of human's hand. [read more ...]

 

Assessment and Training System for Micromanipulation Tasks in Surgery

Human accuracy limitations due to physiological tremor is a concern in microsurgery (e.g., eye, hand and neuro-surgery). This restricts the types of feasible microsurgical procedures, making it necessary to train apprentice surgeons and assess their performances. This project will investigate the causes of non-voluntary deviations hindering the quality of interventions, and develop a virtual reality based training system for training microsurgeons to perform manipulation tasks under a microscope. [read more ...]

Publications

Refereed Conference:

1. E. S. Ananda, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, E. Burdet, T. C. Lim, C. L. Teo, and W. T. Ang, “Study of the effect of visual feedback and speed on the accuracy of micromanipulation tasks,” in Proc. 31th Annual Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Sep. 2009, (in press).
2. W. T. Latt, E. S. Ananda, S. C. L. Ong, K. C. Veluvolu, C. Y. Shee, and W. T. Ang, “Design and implementation of a two degree-of-freedom micromanipulation assessment system,” in Proc. 30th Annual Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2008, pp. 5640–5643.

Refereed Conference (Submitted/review):

1. None.