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| BENEFICIARY 04 |
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| School of Engineering, Institute of Microtechnics IMT, Lab of Robotic Systems LSRO |
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| BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION |
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EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) is among the top-ranked non-Anglo-Saxon universities. It has important activities in all fields of robotics, covering biomedical and industrial applications as well as humanoid and life inspired robotics with a total of about eight labs and over 100 scientific staff active in those fields. It is participating in a highly competitive NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research) project of the Swiss National Foundation for Science (SNF), the CO-ME (Computer Aided Medical Imaging and Intervention).
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The EPFL Robotics Lab LSRO has pioneered biomedical robotics with the MINERVA project for neurosurgery in the 1990ies. Recent activities have concentrated on surgery simulation for various mini-invasive interventions, especially the hardware part (force feedback) of such devices and on MRI compatible devices. Several spin-off companies in the biomedical field have resulted from such activities: xitact SA in Morges, Attracsys, Force Dimension etc. |
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EPFL also boosts a newly established and highly visible School of Life Science, thus providing an ideal environment for biomedical research projects, together with the large activity in micro technologies (about 300 scientific staff) of the Engineering School. |
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| MAIN TASKS WITHIN THE PROJECT |
EPFL will lead WP4 on the development of the assistive and operative platform, with a special attention to space creation systems. In addition they will develop haptic systems to be integrated in the human machine interface (WP8). |
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| PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
The LSRO group has developed hardware and software for minimal invasive laparoscopic surgery and for radiology. The results of these developments are now successful commercial products ( www.xitact.com) and they continue to collaborate closely with their former colleagues. The LSRO is also one of the absolute leading institutions for parallel kinematic robots (all the robots of the DELTA family are from this group). |
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| CONTACT |
Prof. Hannes Bleuler
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EPFL STI IMT LSRO1
ME A3 494 (Bâtiment ME)
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne
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| Telf: 0041 (0) 216935927, 33810 |
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| PEOPLE |
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Prof. Hannes Bleuler is Full Professor for robotics at EPFL since 1995. He has been associate professor at The University of Tokyo from 1991 to 1995 in “intelligent mechatronics” and was previously lecturer, postdoc and PhD student at ETH Zurich (Prof. Schweitzer). |
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Prof. Reymond Clavel, the other full professor of the robotics lab LSRO, is the inventor of the Delta parallel robot. The LSRO has a staff of about 50 persons, with about 40 PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. They have a long tradition of realizing biomedical projects in close collaboration with medical doctors, surgeons and biomedical institutions. |
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Evren Samur, M.Sc., is currently a Ph.D. student at EPFL-LSRO and working on haptic interfaces and their biomedical applications. He has a M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Koc University (advisor Prof. Basdogan). His main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics, mechatronics, haptics and surgical simulators. |
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Laura Santos Carreras, is currently a Ph.D. student at EPFL-LSRO and working on multimodal haptic interfaces for biomedical applications. She obtained a M.Sc. degree in Automatics and Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Her main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics, mechatronics, and haptics. |
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Ricardo Beira is currently a PhD student at EPFL-LSRO .He received his Mechanical Engineering Degree in 2005 and the MS inEngineering Design in 2007 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),Lisbon, Portugal. He has participated in various international research projects in the areas of mechanical design and robotics. His research interests include engineering design, mechanism synthesis and medical robotics. |
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Ali Sengül is a Ph.D. student at EPFL-LSRO and working on biomedical microrobotics applications. He received his B.S. degree from the Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul in 2006. He received his M.S. Degree in 2008 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) specializing in Robotics and Mechatronics. |
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Mathieu Stephan is currently a PhD student at EPFL-LSRO under the supervision of Mr Bleuler and works on embedded sytems for various fields. He received his B.S degree in 2007 from Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieur en Electronique & Electrotechnique (ESIEE, Paris) and MS degree in computer science in 2009 from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His main research interests are in the fields of robotics, embedded sytems design, safe robotic systems. |
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