Topical Team on Robot Assisted Surgery
A Topical Team's main objective is to attain an effective co-ordination of the activities of the different research groups represented by the Team members through the organisation of ad-hoc meetings. Such meetings enable an efficient exchange of the most recent scientific results obtained by the different groups, and aim at agreeing on research priorities.
Topical Team Objectives
This TT proposes to reach a first step towards medical curative technologies required for future space missions but also for terrestrial applications. Assisted surgery being a wide and broad field, the team will develop a consolidated overview of assisted surgery activities relevant for space applications and will then provide detailed recommendations for different key sub-domains such as:
- robotics
- telecommunications
- medical navigation capabilities
- virtual and augmented reality
- etc.
Start date: April2008
Duration: 12 months
Estimated end date: April 2009
Study leader: LIRMM (France)
ESA contacts Arnaud Runge - Arnaud.Runge @ esa.int
Life & Physical Sciences Instrumentation Section (TEC-MMG)
Patrik Sundblad - Patrik.Sundblad @ esa.int
Life Sciences Unit (HME-GAL)
