BioRob'12

Future Trends in Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics

- Methodical Robotics -

Date: 14:00- 16:30, June 24, 2012

Schedule:

14:00 - 14:20

Presenter: Masakatsu G. Fujie, Waseda University, Japan

Topic: Rehabilitation robot

Title: Intelligent medical and rehabilitation robot based on physical model of human

14:20 - 14:40

Presenter: Jung Kim, KAIST, Korea

Topic: Rehabilitation robot

Title: Physical Human Robot Interactions(pHRI) for Biorobotics

14:40 - 15:00

Presenter: Hiroyasu Iwata, Waseda University, Japan

Topic: Medical robot

Title: Robot Technology Assisted Emergency Medicine

15:00 - 15:20

Presenter: Mamoru Mitsuishi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Topic: Medical robot

Title: Future Medical Robot

15:20 - 15:40

Presenter: Arianna Menciassi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Topic: Medical robot

Title: Surgical robotics: a quest for miniaturization

15:40 - 16:00

Presenter: Ryoichi Nakamura, Chiba University, Japan

Topic: Medical robot

Title: Navigation-based intuitive guidance and analysys for robotics in minimally invasive surgery

16:00 - 16:10

Coffee break

16:10 - 16:30

Discussion

Abstract:

With the advent of an aging society all over the world, there will be an increased demand for the practical application of RT (Robot Technology) in medical fields – in fact, it is expected that this demand will lead to the creation of new key industries in future. Thus, the main objectives of this workshop are to discuss the future trend on medical robot (especially, rehabilitation, assistive, surgical, diagnosis robot) as well as the innovative and interesting research activities in robotics.

Since the dissemination of medical RT will have a wide-ranging effect on people and society, the integration of a variety of academic fields is also needed, including robotics, mechatronics, rehabilitation, medicine, physiology and neuroscience, etc. Then, technical topics include various topics such as surgical and diagnostic robot, assistive and rehabilitation robot, neuro rehabilitaion, biomenchanical model and modeling and control for medical robot.

We will highlight the most innovative and interesting multidisciplinary research activities related with medical robotics. From the discussion, we plan to discuss and find future trend on medical robotics. We also discuss about how to do multidisciplinary research activities because most of useful robot in society may be generated only from multidisciplinary researches. Our goal is to increase the focus on the fundamental technology for medical robotics for the purpose to accelerate the actual application of RT world widely and to foster young researchers to work on RT with a multidisciplinary perspective.

List of Topics

a. Assistive and rehabilitation robots

b. Medical and surgical robots

c. Human measurement and modeling

f. Neuromuscular dynamics

g. Biomenchanical modeling

h. Modeling and control

Primary audience

The primary audiences are to researchers in the field of medical robotics who are interested in the practical application of RT in the medical field and the education for young researchers.

Organizers

Masakatsu G. Fujie, Ph.D., Professor (IEEE Fellow)

Faculty of Science & Engineering, Waseda University

Hiroyasu Iwata, Ph.D., Associate Proffesor (IEEE Member)

Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University

Yo Kobayashi, Ph.D., Associate Proffesor (IEEE Member)

Faculty of Science & Engineering, Waseda University

Contact

Yo Kobayashi, Ph.D., Associate Proffesor (IEEE Member)

Faculty of Science & Engineering, Waseda University

Office 59-309, 3-4-1,Ohkubo,Shinjuku,Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

Tel: +81-3-5286-3412

email: you-k@fuji.waseda.jp