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Mechatronics in Medicine

The MIM Lab develops robotic and mechatronics surgical systems for a variety of procedures.

Head of Group

B415C Bessemer Building
South Kensington Campus

+44 (0)20 7594 7046

What we do

The Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory develops robotic and mechatronics surgical systems for a variety of procedures including neuro, cardiovascular, orthopaedic surgeries, and colonoscopies. Examples include bio-inspired catheters that can navigate along complex paths within the brain (such as EDEN2020), soft robots to explore endoluminal anatomies (such as the colon), and virtual reality solutions to support surgeons during knee replacement surgeries.

Meet the team

Mr Ayhan Aktas
Casual - Student demonstrator - lower rate

Dr Daniel Bautista Salinas
Research Associate

Dr Kaiwen Chen
Research Associate

Mr Zejian Cui
Research Assistant

Mr Connor Daly
Research Postgraduate

Emeritus Professor Brian L Davies FREng
Emeritus Professor

Mr Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu
Research Postgraduate

Dr Hisham M Iqbal
Research Associate

Mr Alex Ranne
Research Postgraduate

Professor Ferdinando M Rodriguez y Baena
Co-Director of Hamlyn Centre, Professor of Medical Robotics

Dr Jialei Shi
Research Associate

Mr Spyridon Souipas
Casual - Other work

Ms Emilia Zari
Research Postgraduate

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Tenzer:2011:10.1109/WHC.2011.5945497,
author = {Tenzer, Y and Bowyer, S and Davies, BL and Rodriguez, Y Baena F},
doi = {10.1109/WHC.2011.5945497},
pages = {269--274},
title = {"Sticking" aspects of a haptic device with part-locking programmable brakes},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WHC.2011.5945497},
year = {2011}
}

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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This paper outlines work on the development of a novel programmable rotary brake which can restrict motion of a mechanism moving in one direction whilst allowing free motion in other directions. The design, implementation and performance of a fully functional prototype are described along the work on incorporating the prototype into a 3 Degrees-Of-Freedom (DOF) haptic device. The ability of the haptic device to constrain the motion of the end-effector to point-constraint was investigated and the experiments have shown that the haptic device can implement virtual constraints without the need for a force sensor. The experiments also show that when an advanced control scheme is used the virtual wall is not felt as "sticky". © 2011 IEEE.
AU  - Tenzer,Y
AU  - Bowyer,S
AU  - Davies,BL
AU  - Rodriguez,Y Baena F
DO  - 10.1109/WHC.2011.5945497
EP  - 274
PY  - 2011///
SP  - 269
TI  - "Sticking" aspects of a haptic device with part-locking programmable brakes
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WHC.2011.5945497
ER  -

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