Cognitive surgical robotics (I05)

• Subject Area: Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics ; General and Visceral Surgery
• Term: from 2012 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 211469636

The visionary goal is a situationally adaptive robotic system, the physical Cognitive Surgical Assistant (CoSA), which provides direct, physical assistance functions for different application projects. To this end, knowledge-based real-time components for manipulation and handling tasks are investigated. The concrete assistance functions, autonomous endoscope guidance and force adaptive retaining, are based on a pervasive cognitive system which continuously reasons about its actions by means of semantic models of surgery and robotics.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 125: Cognition-Guided Surgery
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Beat Peter Müller-Stich; Professor Dr.-Ing. Heinz Wörn