Haptic Mechatronics and Medical Robotics (HaMMeR) Lab http://kclhammerlab.com King’s College London Dr Hongbin Liu Senior Lecturer in Informatics (Robotics) Director and Principal Investigator
http://kclhammerlab.com Kings College London Director and Principal - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dr Hongbin Liu Haptic Mechatronics and Medical Robotics (HaMMeR) Lab Senior Lecturer in Informatics (Robotics) http://kclhammerlab.com Kings College London Director and Principal Investigator A Brief History of Soft Robots Soft Robots
A Brief History of Soft Robots
Soft Robots 2010: the beginning of growth
1990 2010
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Soft Robots 2010
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Soft Robots 2010
Festo – Gemany, Bionic Handling Assistant
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Soft Robots 2010
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Robotic Octopus -2010
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Soft Robots in Medicine - 2012
King’s College London, 2012 Harvard University 2017 2013
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Octopus inspired Soft Robots for surgery
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Octopus inspired Soft Robots for surgery
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Soft Robots hand
Passive compliance to increase adaptiveness
Pisa Harvard
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Soft worm robots
Koichi Suzumori
Soft robotics are hot in the research
- but still waiting for major industry success
13-06-2018
None 3 5 ~20 Number of haptic sensing elements or dimension ~10
Limited Haptic Capability
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16 ~ 50 μm Hairs as mechanorece ptors: touch, vibration, motion Pores on the hair act a s chemoreceptor recei ves taste and smell
Nature
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Our lab designs robots with advanced haptic perception and interaction capabilities to address unmet needs in medicine, enabling safer and more effective diagnosis and treatment. Lab Mission
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Soft Medical Devices
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Nature
- Full body haptic sensing
- Shape awareness
- Distributed neural processing
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Challenge in haptic sensing and interaction
- Thin and flexible with large deflection
and internal friction
- Difficult to instrument sensors
- Multiple contacts along the body:
boundary condition is unknown
Haptic Interaction with unknown contacts on the body
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Soft robot haptic interaction
- Making use of the morphology
(physical properties-stiffness, shape of both robot and environment )
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Soft Robotic Platform for Ultrasound Imaging
Soft end-effector Passive arm Hydraulic actuated soft actuators with intrinsic force sensing
intelligent Fetal Imaging and Diagnosis
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Constrained motion
End-effector in contact with phantom Image feedback
A novel soft, parallel end-effector for robot-assisted ultrasound interventions, L Lindenroth, A Soor, J Hutchinson, A Shafi, J Back, K Rhode, H Liu, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017
intelligent Fetal Imaging and Diagnosis
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Intrinsic force sensing
Pressure feedback
Intrinsic force sensing capabilities in compliant robots comprising hydraulic actuation, L Lindenroth, C Duriez, J Back, K Rhode, H Liu, IEEE Int ernational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017
intelligent Fetal Imaging and Diagnosis
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Example: Head Circumference measurement Evaluation by Sonographer
Soft and self propelled endoscope for diagnosis and intervention for lower digestive tract
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The Challenge of Colonoscopy
Idealised procedure
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Real State-of-the-Art Procedure
It is this deformation of the colon which induces pain for the patient. Before After
Earthworm
Setae
Earthworm
Setae Bioinspired soft worm robot Artificial setae Artificial setae
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Morphology matters!
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Locomotion with local morphology change
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Morphology of environment
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Lessons learned
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Acknowledgments
HaMMeR Team
- Junghwan Back
- Julius Bernth
- Yu Chen
- Jian Hu
- Lukas Lindenroth
- George Abrahams
- Teng Sun