Soft robotic technologies for next-generation bio-integrative medical devices

用于下一代生物集成医疗设备的软机器人技术

• 批准号: EP/M020460/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Rossiter
• 金额: $ 133.4万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM020460%2F1
• 关键词: Soft; robotic; technologies; next; generation

Healthcare is in need of more advanced therapies that integrate closely with the biological and physical systems of the human body. These include new treatments for age-related physical degradation, for example in the circulatory system, and post-operative functional restoration following surgery, including cancer removal, and trauma including traffic accidents. Unfortunately current medical treatments and devices rely heavily on conventional 'hard' technologies that limit effectiveness and raise safety and cost issues. In contrast soft robotic technologies have the potential for close bio-integration by exploiting the 'soft-soft' interfacing that is so prevalent in Nature. Soft robotics offers safer, scalable, lower cost and more effective personalised medical treatments. This fellowship will develop innovative modular soft robotic technologies for rapid exploitation in the next generation bio-integrative medical and therapeutic systems.To enable future soft robotic healthcare technologies requires a concerted effort across the development pipeline from fundamental biocompatible smart materials and their corresponding nonlinear viscoelastic mathematical modelling to efficient compliant mechanisms and complete compliant machines. Fundamental studies into materials and mechanisms will be undertaken and will feed into the identification and characterisation of a set of modular soft robotic components that act as 'building blocks' for complete implantable medical devices.The technologies identified and developed will contribute directly to a step change in the sophistication of bio-integrative medical treatments. These will strengthen the UKs capability in the field of healthcare technologies and will make a significant contribution to improvements in standards of care and quality of life for a wide range of patients.

医疗保健需要更先进的疗法，与人体的生物和物理系统紧密结合。其中包括针对与年龄相关的身体退化（例如循环系统）的新疗法，以及手术后功能恢复（包括癌症切除）和创伤（包括交通事故）。不幸的是，目前的医疗方法和设备严重依赖于传统的“硬”技术，这限制了有效性，并引发了安全和成本问题。相比之下，软机器人技术通过利用自然界中普遍存在的“软-软”界面，具有紧密生物整合的潜力。软机器人提供更安全、可扩展、更低成本和更有效的个性化医疗。该奖学金将开发创新的模块化软机器人技术，用于下一代生物综合医疗和治疗系统的快速开发。为了实现未来的软机器人医疗技术，需要在整个开发管道中协同努力，从基本的生物相容性智能材料及其相应的非线性粘弹性数学模型到高效的柔性机构和完整的柔性机器。将进行材料和机制的基础研究，并将用于识别和表征一组模块化软机器人组件，这些组件可作为完整植入式医疗设备的“构建块”。确定和开发的技术将直接促进生物综合医学治疗的复杂程度的一步变化。这将加强英国在医疗保健技术领域的能力，并将为提高广大患者的护理标准和生活质量作出重大贡献。

项目成果

RUBIC: An Untethered Soft Robot With Discrete Path Following.

• DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00052
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Frontiers in robotics and AI
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Chen HY;Diteesawat RS;Haynes A;Partridge AJ;Simons MF;Werner E;Garrad M;Rossiter J;Conn AT
• 通讯作者: Conn AT

Self-Sensing Electro-Ribbon Actuators

• DOI: 10.1109/lra.2020.2983677
• 发表时间: 2020-07-01
• 期刊: IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Bluett, Simon;Helps, Tim;Rossiter, Jonathan
• 通讯作者: Rossiter, Jonathan

Soft Photochemical Actuation Systems: Tuning Performance Through Solvent Selection

软光化学驱动系统：通过溶剂选择调整性能

• DOI: 10.1115/smasis2017-3821
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Dicker M

Expertise Affects Inter-Observer Agreement at Peripheral Locations within a Brain Tumor.

专业知识影响脑肿瘤内周围部位观察者间的一致性。

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01628
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Frontiers in psychology
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Crowe EM;Alderson W;Rossiter J;Kent C
• 通讯作者: Kent C

De-electroadhesion of Flexible and Lightweight Materials: An Experimental Study

柔性轻质材料的去电粘附：实验研究

• DOI: 10.3390/app9142796
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Applied Sciences
• 作者: Cao C