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| BENEFICIARY 01 |
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| BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION |
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Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) (http://www.sssup.it) is a public university for research and advanced undergraduate and graduate education in the fields of social and experimental sciences. |
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The CRIM Lab (Centre for Research in Microengineering, http://www-crim.sssup.it), one of the SSSA laboratories and research centres, was established in 1991 with the mission to perform applied research on bio-micro-mechatronics and to promote the industrial take-up and exploitation of the developed technologies. CRIM Lab possesses state-of-the-art micro and nanofabrication machinery and clean room facilities, which are used for research in sensors, actuators and robotics for biomedical applications. |
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| MAIN TASKS WITHIN THE PROJECT |
SSSA is responsible for the project coordination (WP1), both scientific and administrative. The scientific coordination is led by Paolo Dario for the engineering part, and by Alfred Cuschieri for the surgical part. The definition of the surgical methods and procedures is coordinated by SSSA (WP3), together with the definition of the system architecture. The major technical roles of SSSA are related to the development of endoluminal robotic modules and manipulators endowed with sensors and actuators (in WP4), and to the system integration (WP9) of the ARAKNES platform. |
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| PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
CRIM Lab possesses outstanding records of publications, high level research and patents. In particular, CRIM Lab developed more than 10 international patents, and has been or is still involved in more than 10 national projects, more than 23 projects funded by the European Commission, 2 European Competence Centres, 3 European Networks of Excellence and several international projects and cooperations. The list of major past and current research projects in the field of medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery is reported as end-note. |
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European Projects Coordinated by SSSA-CRIM in the last decade are more than 10, 6 on them on biomedical topics. The coordination activities of SSSA-CRIM and in general of SSSA have always been very smooth and effective. Since the year 2002, the Research Division of SSSA has grown an administrative department specialized in the management of European Project of the 5th, 6th and now 7th FPs. This has made the coordination activity of European projects administratively smooth together with scientifically effective. |
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| CONTACT |
| Paolo Dario |
| Professor of Biomedical Robotics |
| CRIM Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
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| Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, 34 |
| 56025 Pontedera (Pisa) / Italy |
| Tel. +39 050.883420/102 |
| Fax +39 050.883497 |
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| Web: www.sssup.it |
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| PEOPLE |
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Paolo Dario received the Dr. Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at SSSA, Pisa, Italy. He also teaches courses at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities, including Brown University, USA, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Waseda University, Japan, College de France, Paris, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, and Zhejiang University, China. He is the founder and co-ordinator of the Advanced Robotics Technologies and Systems (ARTS) Laboratory and of the Center for Research in Microengineering (CRIM) Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he supervises a team of about 55 researchers and Ph.D. students. He is also the Director of the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera, the Science Park of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. His main research interests are in the fields of biorobotics, medical robotics, mechatronics, and micro/nanoengineering. He has been and is the coordinator of many national and European projects, the editor of two books in Robotics, and the author of more than 200 scientific papers (140 in ISI journals). He is Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and Member of the Editorial Board of many international journals. Prof. Dario served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in the term 2002–2003. He is a Fellow of the European Society on Medical and Biological Engineering, and a recipient of many honors and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award. He is also a Member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). |
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Alfred Cuschieri is Professor of Surgery at SSSA and has been recently appointed Research Director and Chief Scientific Advisor to the IMSaT (Section 2.3). He has received numerous international awards for his contributions to the development, practice and training in minimally invasive surgery including the International Society of Surgery Prize in 1993, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Gold Medal, 1997, Knight Bachelor-Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen’s award for higher and continued education in 1999, the SAGES outstanding achievement award in 2001, Life time achievement award Indian Association of Endoscopic Surgeons in 2004, Hon Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2005, Hon Member American Surgical Association in 2006. He is the Editor in Chief of Surgical Endoscopy and serves on the Editorial Board of 6 other major peer-review journals. He has served as President or council member of 15 surgical national and international societies. He has 452 original publications in major peer review journals and is the author/ editor of 23 books. |
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Prof. Arianna Menciassi received her Laurea Degree in Physics (with Honors) from the University of Pisa in 1995. In 1999, she received her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: her research results have been awarded with the Best Manipulation Paper Award at ICRA’2001. She became Associate Professor of biomedical robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2006. She teaches at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and at the University of Pisa (Master Degree in Bioengineering), and she supervises several Master and Ph.D. students. Her main research interests are in the fields of biomedical mini-, micro- and nano-robotics, microsystem technologies, micromechatronics. She is working on several European projects and international projects for the development of micro-robotic systems for diagnosis and surgery. She is co-author of about 100 international scientific papers, 50 of these on ISI journals. She is also co-author of 5 book chapters on medical devices and micro-technologies. She is co-inventor of several international and national patents. |
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Dr. Pietro Valdastri received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering (honors) from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the Center for Research in Micro-engineering (CRIM) Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2006. He is working on several European projects for the development of minimally invasive and wireless biomedical devices. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he is engaged in research on implantable robotic systems and active capsular endoscopy. |
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Fabrizio Vecchi received the University Degree (Laurea) in electrical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1999 and the Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Genova in 2003. He is Post-Doc research scientist at the Advanced Robotic Technology and System (ARTS) Laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. His current research interests are in the fields of biomechatronics, rehabilitation engineering and neuro-robotics, and in particular in the design and development of human-machine interfaces, of biomechatronic prosthetic and robotic hands, and of passive and active orthoses. Since 2004 he is the Project Manager of the NEUROBOTICS Integrated Project (Fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics, IST-FET-2003-001917). Since 2008 he is also the Project Manager of the ARAKNES Project. He is member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. |
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Marco Piccigallo was born in 1978 in Pisa, Italy. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pisa, Italy in 2003 and the Ph.D. in Biorobotics at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, in 2008. He joined the CRIM Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa in 2004. His main research interests are in the field of biomedical robotics and computer-assisted surgery. |
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Umberto Scarfogliero received his Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2004. He received the PhD. in Biorobotics Science and Engineering at IMT Lucca and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa in 2008. He joined the CRIM Lab in 2005, working on mechanical design and mechanisms synthesis on legged robots. |
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Claudio Quaglia was born in 1976 in Pontedera, Italy. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2005, specializing in land vehicles. His degree thesis focused on the employment of a triaxial accelerometer for tool condition monitoring in automatic machining. Since 2006 he is with CRIM Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. His main research interests are in the field of medical robotics and micromechanical systems. |
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Giuseppe Tortora was born in Isernia, Italy, in 1983. In April 2007 he joined the CRIM Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, focusing his activity on capsular endoscopy. He received his MS degree in bioengineering at the University of Pisa, Italy, in April 2008. In November 2008 he started his PhD programme in Biorobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His main research interests are in the field of biorobotics, endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery |
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Selene Tognarelli received his Laurea Degree in Biomedical Engineering (with Honors) from the University of Pisa in April 2007. In January 2008 she started his PhD. in Bioengineering at CRIM Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. Main research interests are in the field of robotic surgery. |
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Gianluigi Petroni was born in 1984 in Lucca, Italy. He received the M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Pisa, Italy in 2009. In January 2010 he started his PhD programme in Micro-Biorobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His main research interests are in the field of biorobotics, and teleoperated control systems. |
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Sebastiano Caccavaro received his Master Degree in
Mechanical Engineering from Università della Calabria in
Cosenza in 2008. He joined the CRIM Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in April 2009, focusing his activity on robotic capsules. He started his PhD programme in MicroSystems Engineering in December 2009. His main interests are in the field of biomedical robotics, minimally invasive surgery and computer-assisted surgery.
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