Medical Robotics detailed syllabus for Robotics & Automation Engineering (Robotics) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Robotics students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Robotics & Automation Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Robotics 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Robotics Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of medical robotics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Types of medical robots – Navigation – Motion Replication – Imaging – Rehabilitation and Prosthetics
– Stateof art of robotics in the field of healthcare-DICOM
Unit II
LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING 9
Position sensors requirements – Tracking – Mechanical linkages – Optical – Sound based -Electromagnetic – Impedance-based – In-bore MRI tracking-Video matching – Fiber optic tracking systems – Hybrid systems.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SURGICAL ROBOTICS 9
Minimally invasive surgery and robotic integration – surgical robotic sub systems – synergistic control – Control Modes – Radiosurgery – Orthopedic Surgery – Urologic Surgery and Robotic Imaging -Cardiac Surgery – Neurosurgery – case studies
Unit V
ROBOTS I REHABILITATION AND MEDICAL CARE 9
Rehabilitation for Limbs – Brain-Machine Interfaces – Steerable Needles – Assistive robots – Robots in Physiotherapy – case studies
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify various medical robots and their potential applications.
- Recognize the position tracking and hybrid systems.
- Apply Robotics and its concepts in Medical field
- Simulate a MIS procedure and be aware of the state of art in surgical and oncology robotics.
- Design a medical robotic system given the specific requirements for Rehabilitation and Medical care.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Jaydev P Desai, Rajni V Patel, Antoine Ferreira; Sunil Kumar Agrawal, “The
- Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics”, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd, 2019.
- Jocelyne Troccaz , “Medical Robotics”, John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 2013.
- Vanja Bonzovic , “Medical Robotics”, I-tech Education publishing, Austria, 2008.
- Farid Gharagozloo “Robotic Surgery”, Springer, 2022.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Robotics & Automation Engineering 5th Sem, visit Robotics 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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