Human Motion Capture and Analysis Poster Recieves Runner-Up in ICT Day Workshop

Congratulations to Seungkook Jun, Xiaobo Zhou, Dr. Venkat Krovi, and Dr. Daniel Ramsey for receiving runner-up in the recently held Information and Computing Technology (ICT) Day Workshop by the Department of Computer Science Engineering. The poster, entitled Cyber Physical Systems: Quantitative Sensing of Dynamic Behaviors for Progressive Rehabilitation, was presented by Seungkook Jun. The research team sought to determine the feasibility of using commercially available human motion capturing devices (such as the Microsoft Kinect) as economically-viable tools in motion analysis. This analysis is then applied to the design and implementation of rehabilitative devices, including articulated knee braces.

Related Publications:

[1] S.K. Jun, X. Zhou, D. Ramsey, V. Krovi, "A Comparative Study of Human Motion Capture and Analysis Tools", In International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2013), Seattle WA, June 24 -26 2013. (submitted for review)

[2] S.K. Jun, X. Zhou, D. Ramsey, V. Krovi, "Kineto-static Design-Refinement of Articulated Knee Braces", In ASME IDETC/ CIE 2013, Portland Oregon, August 4-7 2013. (submitted for review)

[3] Zhou, X, Tang, C.-P., and Krovi, V., “Analysis Framework for Cooperating Mobile Cable Robots,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '12), Minneapolis, MN, May 14-18 2012.

[4] Lee, L.-F., Zhou, X., Krovi, V., “Quantitative Performance Analysis of Haptic Devices with Parallelogram Subsystems”, In ASME IDETC/ CIE 2011, DETC 2011-47725, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2011.

[5] Narayanan, M.S., Chakravarty, S., Shah, H.L., and Krovi, V., "Kinematic-Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator", In ASME IDETC/CIE 2010 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010.

Dr. Krovi and his Crew Awarded Bruce Holm Catalyst Research Fund

The research grant with Dr. Krovi as the principal investigator (PI) has been awarded with the Bruce Holm Catalyst Research Fund. The Co-PIs on this project include our research collaborators-- Dr. Pankaj Singhal, Asst. Prof in Gyn/Onc Dept at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Jason J Corso, Asst. Prof in the Dept. of Computer Science Eng. The proposal submitted by Dr.Krovi and his crew was one among the five research groups selected to receive this fund from UB (Bruce Holm Catalyst Fund). The financial support is intended to move promising technologies, developed within engineering and scientific research labs, closer to the market for possible commercialization. The proposal that was submitted by Dr. Krovi & Co. is based on our current progress on surgical skill assessment. In particular, this work proposes to focus on re-purposing video-based micro-motion analysis in order to improve training for doctors performing robotic surgeries, as well as to serve as a tool in evaluating proficiency. We in ARMLAB congratulate Dr.Krovi and his team for their commendable efforts.

Please see the following links for more information:

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2013/02/05/ub-investing-in-multiple-research.html?page=all

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/02/004.html

Related Publications:

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Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Misra, S., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J., and Krovi, V., “ Vision based Decision-Support and Safety Systems for Robotic Surgery”, 2013 Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop (MedCPS), Philadelphia, PA, Apr 8, 2013.

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Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis”, 2012 5th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2012, London, UK, Jun 30-Jul 2. [BIB | RIS]

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Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Roma, Italy, Jun 24-28, 2012. [BIB | RIS]

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Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, College Park, MD, March 20-22, 2012. [BIB | RIS]

Runner Up Paper Award in 2012 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics

Our recent progress in the field of surgical robotics that discusses the micro-motion-analysis based skill assessment techniques was presented at the 2012 IEEE Bio-robotics and Bio-mechatronics Conference as well as at 2012 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR). Dr.Krovi attended both the conferences in Italy and London respectively. The audience who attended both the presentations were much appreciative of our work and we wish to thank everyone of them for their valuable questions/ feedback. 

Specifically, the paper titled "Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis" that was presented at HSMR also bagged the runner-up paper-poster award at the conference. Dr.Krovi who presented the paper at the symposium in Imperial College at London, UK personally received the award from Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham and Professor Guang-Zhong Yan. We, from ARMLAB, would like to congratulate all the contributors of this work and wish all the best to achieve further success in their respective endeavors.

Related Publications:
Journal

[J01] Jun, S.-K., Sathia Narayanan, M., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2013 Journal of Robotic Surgery. 

Conferences

[C06] Kumar, S., Sathia Narayanan, M., Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Product-of-Tracking-Experts for Surgical Tool Visual Tracking”, 2013 IEEE Conference on Auomation Science and Engineering, Madison, WI (submitted for review).

[C05] Kumar, S., Sathia Narayanan, M., Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Surgical Tool Attributes for Intraoperative Semantic Feedback”, 2013 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Information Society, Tokyo, Japan (submitted for review).

[C04]Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Misra, S., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J., and Krovi, V., “ Vision based Decision-Support and Safety Systems for Robotic Surgery”, 2013 Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop (MedCPS), Philadelphia, PA, Apr 8, 2013.
[C03]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis”, 2012 5th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2012, London, UK, Jun 30-Jul 2. [BIB | RIS]  [PDF]
[C02]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Roma, Italy, Jun 24-28, 2012. [BIB | RIS]  [PDF]
[C01]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, College Park, MD, March 20-22, 2012. [BIB | RIS] [PDF]

Poster
[P01]Seung-kook Jun, "Robotic Surgical Skill Assessment using Therbligs-based Motion Studies", 2012 MAE Dept. Graduate Student Research Poster Competition [PDF]

ARMies at 2012 MAE GSA Research Symposium

Ahead of a busy conference period, ARMLAB members presented their research posters at this year's 2012 MAE GSA Research Symposium. Xiaobo was presenting his current developments with cooperative cable robots while Seung-kook (a.k.a. SK) presented his work on robotic surgical skill assessment based on motion analysis methods.

This work was selected for presentation at 2012 IEEE BioROB conference held at Roma, Italy in June this year. Xiaobo will in turn present his work at 2012 ICRA (St. Paul, MN). Having received words of appreciation and encouragement from the department faculties at the research poster symposium, we wish them all the best for their presentation at the respective conferences.

Related Publications

[1] Zhou, X, Tang, C.-P., and Krovi, V., “Analysis Framework for Cooperating Mobile Cable Robots,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '12), Minneapolis, MN, May 14-18 2012. [BIB | RIS ]

[2] Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Jun 24-28, 2012, Roma, Italy. [BIB | RIS]

[3] Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, March 20-22, 2012, College Park, MD. [BIB | RIS]

2012 Haptics Workshop: Come Explore the Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics

Here we are again at the 7th year of Tech Savvy- "Doing Well by Doing Good"-- the annual workshop for middle school and high school girls that took place in University at Buffalo. There were over 500 girls from many different local high schools with a "Haptics: Come Explore the Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics" Workshop from the ARMLAB once again!!!

In the hour-long workshop Dr. Krovi, Shefalika Prasad (local high school student), Ziyun Jo Zhou (REU student), Light Le and Justin Storms (undergraduates at UB) presented fundamental concepts and basics of robotics/ haptics outlining the application needs, engineering challenges and highlighting the bright future of robotics/haptics -- before the FUN and DEMONSTRATIONS began!!

One of the major highlights of this year was of course the guest speaker, Shefalika who is actually the first prize recipient at Tech Wars NCCC 2012 competition in the autonomous robot category for concept-design and fabrication of a automated robotic parking gate system. She talked about her winning project design and her parking gate system was on display which was well received by the girls who attended the workshop. Jo and Light presented their project on surgical haptic simulations that they are currently pursuing in ARMLAB and led way to interactive hands-on sessions.

The girls were very excited to try out the attractive demo applications -- needle biopsy simulator, ear surgery simulator as well as Cre8 (freeform CAD application). Working with cutting edge haptic and robotics applications, proved to be a great learning opportunity to these students. This workshop also served to provide valuable information to many others who were actually wanting to get their hands on pursuing robotics.

We thank AAUW for their continuing support. More details about the workshop and the presentations can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/techsavvyroboticsworkshop/.