Opis projektu
Kształtowanie przyszłości robotów medycznych
Pracownicy służby zdrowia będący na pierwszej linii frontu walki z pandemią COVID-19 z trudem radzą sobie ze znacznym wzrostem liczby pacjentów. Ponadto z powodu konieczności zachowywania dystansu społecznego wzrosła popularność telemedycyny. W procesie leczenia konieczne może okazać się zatem stosowanie robotów. W tym kontekście w ramach projektu SAMURAI, finansowanego z programu działań „Maria Skłodowska-Curie” powstaną miękkie urządzenia mikrorobotyczne drukowane w całości w technologii 3D z wykorzystaniem technik obróbki przyrostowej. Te miękkie mikroroboty będą poruszać się zarówno w warunkach otoczenia, jak i w cieczach. Ponadto opracowane zostaną nowe protokoły druku 3D do wytwarzania mikrorobotów oraz ocenione zostaną różne biomimetyczne konstrukcje mikrorobotów. Planuje się też badanie funkcji autonomicznego działania dzięki wbudowaniu w mikroroboty mikroprocesorów.
Cel
"Current healthcare systems are facing major challenges due to the recent global pandemic. The human-human interaction has become hazardous as infection rates rise and healthcare workers are finding increased difficulty in managing the overwhelming number of patients and necessary resources for treatment are constrained. The use of robotic intermediaries for diagnosis and treatment may solve these challenges. The demand for automated medical systems is increasing which can facilitate telemedicine and distribution of individual treatment and care from the limited number of experts simultaneously to multiple patients. Current robotic medical systems are bulky and expensive, limiting use especially for low income counties. Here, soft robotic systems offer several advantages over their conventional and rigid counterparts. They are compliant and can mimic the excellent dexterity of bio-organisms. They can be fabricated by Additive Manufacturing Technology in automated fabrication and thus reduce the cost of the (soft) medical systems. SAMURAI will develop innovative soft microrobotic devices fully 3D printed using additive manufacturing techniques. By using microactuators based on electroactive polymers and ionogels as the movement generating ""limbs"", soft microrobots will be fabricated that can move both in ambient condition and liquid media, resulting in amphibious devices. New 3D printing protocols will be developed and optimized for fabricating the microrobot. Various biomimicking designs of the microrobot will be evaluated. Finally, autonomous operation will be investigated by embedding the soft microrobot with a microchip. The miniaturization of the robotic devices in SAMURAI will pave the way to a future of medical robots traversing the complex micro-channels present in the body. SAMURAI will effectively re-establish the researcher’s career by high quality training and knowledge transfer and offering new networks and skills in applied sciences."
Dziedzina nauki
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticssoft robotics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
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System finansowania
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Koordynator
581 83 Linkoping
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