Paper related to quantification of gestures accepted at HFES 2018
A paper authored by ISAT members, Glebys Gonzalez, Naveen Madapana and Rahul Taneja is accepted and is in press at International Annual Meeting, HFES 2018.
Two papers accepted at ICPR 2018
Two papers authored by Mr. Naveen Madapana and Mrs. Ting Zhang are accepted and are in press at 23rd IEEE International conference on Pattern Recognition.
Telerobotic Surgery with Free Hand Gestures
Description: Current teleoperated robot-assisted surgery requires surgeons to manipulate joystick-like controllers in a master console, and robotic arms will mimic those motions on the patient’s side. It is becoming more popular compared to traditional minimally invasive surgery due to its dexterity, precision and accurate motion planning capabilities. However, one major…
Surgical Instrument Recognition via Vision and Manipulation
Description: US hospitals are facing great shortage of registered nurses, which could lead to an increment in mortality rate. One solution to this challenge is to bring Robotic Scrub Nurse (RSN) into the Operating Room (OR) to free nurses from mundane and repetitive tasks such as instrument delivery and retrieval.…
Cabrera wins Outstanding Research Award from College of Engineering
One of our lab members, Maru Cabrera, was awarded the 2018 College of Engineering Graduate Outstanding Research Award. Students are nominated for the award by the faculty based on numerous factors, including peer-reviewed publications, awards received for presentations or publications, potential contribution to the field and society, leadership in a…
Dr. Gregory Hager, JHU, visits ISAT
Dr. Juan P. Wachs and members of ISAT laboratory welcomed Dr. Gregory Hager, from John Hopkins University, during his visit to Purdue University on April 4th, 2018. Glebys Gonzales and Natalia Sanchez Tamayo demonstrated ABB YUMI, with 3D-printed surgical gripper, performed suture needle manipulation. Maria Cabrera demonstrated the telementoring system through Augmented Reality on the…
ISAT Lab @ IEEE VR’18
ISAT member Edgar Rojas co-presented an oral presentation on March 18, 2018 at the VAR4Good workshop at IEEE VR 2018 conference, held in Reutlingen, Germany. Rojas gave a talk regarding the current state of the System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality (STAR). The talk included a comparison between two different…
Prof. Allison Okamura, Stanford, visits Purdue
Dr. Allison Okamura visited Purdue University as a guest presenter for the Purdue Robotics Accelerator initiative. Her seminar was on March 23rd, 2018. Prof. Okamura’s research focuses on developing the principles and tools needed to realize advanced robotic and human-machine systems capable of haptic (touch) interaction, particularly for biomedical applications.…
ISAT members presented 3 posters at HRI 2018 Chicago
ISAT members Tian Zhou, Maru Cabrera, and Natalia Sanchez presented their posters at HRI 2018 conference at Chicago on March 6, 2018. Check it out! Zhou, T., Cha, J. S., Gonzalez, G. T., Wachs, J. P., Sundaram, C., & Yu, D. (2018, March). Joint Surgeon Attributes Estimation in Robot-Assisted…
Zhang team wins two student entrepreneur competitions
In February, Ting Zhang, with Shruthi Suresh (Co-advised by Dr. Duerstock), won second place in the social track of the Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition (BMC). Then on March 6, they won first place in the WomenIN Tech Pitch Competition, a Purdue Foundry initiative which showcases and helps fund early-stage, women-led technology startups in Indiana. A…