Robotic Beating Heart Surgery
Jan 1, 2013
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Robotic beating heart surgery concept.Goals
This project focuses on development of intelligent robotic tools for performing off-pump (beating heart) coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. In this context, off-pump CABG surgery means that the surgery is done while the heart is still beating instead of using a cardiopulmonary bypass machine and stopping the heart to perform heart surgery. The intelligent telerobotic tools that are developed in this project will actively track and cancel the relative motion between the surgical instruments and the heart by Active Relative Motion Canceling (ARMC), allowing CABG surgeries to be performed on a beating heart with technical perfection equal to traditional on pump procedures.
Highlights
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Authors
Nord Professor of Engineering
M. Cenk Cavusoglu is the Nord Professor of Engineering in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is also the director of the Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory. His research focuses on medical robotics, haptics, human–machine interfaces, and control, spanning control, mechanism, and system design to AI-assisted interventions. He is a Fellow of AIMBE. He has led 12 federally funded projects as principal investigator, with a total budget over $12.6M, and has served on editorial boards for leading robotics and mechatronics journals. His work advances safe, precise, and intelligent robotic systems for surgery and image-guided interventions.