LoCoMoTE: Low Cost Morphable Teleoperated Endoscope for Gastric Intestinal Tract Screening

LoCoMoTE：用于胃肠道筛查的低成本可变形遥控内窥镜

• 批准号: EP/R013977/1
• 负责人: Hongbin Liu
• 金额: $ 127.02万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR013977%2F1
• 关键词: LoCoMoTE; Low; Cost; Morphable; Teleoperated

Existing technologies are unable to meet China's endoscopic gastrointestinal (GI) screening needs, due to its large, aging population, insufficient infrastructure and high incidence of GI cancers. To address this challenge, we propose a novel and low cost soft endoscope, together with high-speed wireless communications to create a way to perform regular endoscopic screening programs in China. The soft endoscope will be able propel itself inside torturous, compliant environments, such as the human gastrointestinal tract, and dramatically reduce the pain associated with conventional endoscopes. Because of the self-propelling feature and the inherent safety of using soft material, the new endoscope can be operated by non-specialist staff with minimal training and be supervised or even controlled remotely by specialist clinicians with wireless communication. The endoscope will be operated by clinicians via a custom made haptic interface. The endoscope itself will be made to be low cost and disposable. Therefore, this will enable rural medical clinics to run regular endoscopic screening programs with the system, as it will require no additional sterilisation facilities and will be easy to learn to use. To facilitate adoption and to provide support for rural clinicians, the endoscope will be connected to a high-speed 5G wireless that will enable haptic tele-operation. Through this, expert clinicians in large hospitals all over the country will be able to monitor and directly control screening procedures from any location. Experts will therefore be able to train rural clinicians in techniques by physically demonstrating them, support rural clinics to ensure accurate diagnosis and allow experts to perform more complex procedures remotely. Aligning well with China's strategy of starting 5G commercial applications in 2020, this approach is timely and takes advantage of the wide-spread availability of wireless internet in China and deals directly with the challenges faced by efforts to create large-scale endoscopic screening programs in the country.

由于中国人口众多、老龄化严重、基础设施不足以及胃肠道肿瘤的高发病率，现有技术无法满足中国内镜胃肠道（GI）筛查的需求。为了应对这一挑战，我们提出了一种新型的低成本软内窥镜，并结合高速无线通信，以创造一种在中国进行常规内窥镜筛查的方式。软内窥镜将能够在折磨人的、顺从的环境中推进自己，比如人类的胃肠道，并大大减少与传统内窥镜相关的疼痛。由于使用软材料的自推进特性和固有的安全性，新型内窥镜可以由非专业人员进行最少的培训，并由专业临床医生通过无线通信远程监督甚至控制。内窥镜将由临床医生通过定制的触觉界面进行操作。内窥镜本身将是低成本和一次性的。因此，这将使农村医疗诊所能够使用该系统进行定期内窥镜筛查，因为它不需要额外的消毒设施，而且易于学习使用。为了促进采用并为农村临床医生提供支持，内窥镜将连接到高速5G无线网络，从而实现触觉远程操作。通过这种方式，全国大型医院的专家临床医生将能够从任何地点监测和直接控制筛查程序。因此，专家将能够通过亲自演示技术来培训农村临床医生，支持农村诊所确保准确诊断，并允许专家远程执行更复杂的程序。这一方法与中国2020年启动5G商业应用的战略非常吻合，既及时又利用了中国无线互联网的广泛可用性，直接应对了在中国开展大规模内窥镜筛查项目所面临的挑战。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2021.3116427
• 发表时间: 2021-11-01
• 期刊: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 作者: Liu, Rui;Wang, Shuxin;Shi, Chaoyang
• 通讯作者: Shi, Chaoyang

Three dimensional force estimation for steerable catheters through bi-point tracking

• DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2018.06.009
• 发表时间: 2018-08
• 期刊: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
• 作者: Junghwan Back;L. Lindenroth;K. Rhode;Hongbin Liu

Creating a Soft Tactile Skin Employing Fluorescence Based Optical Sensing

• DOI: 10.1109/lra.2020.2976303
• 发表时间: 2020-04
• 期刊: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Federica De Chiara;Shuxin Wang;Hongbin Liu

Corrections to "Design and Integration of a Parallel, Soft Robotic End-Effector for Extracorporeal Ultrasound".

对“体外超声的并行软机器人末端执行器的设计和集成”的更正。

• DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2020.3012048
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
• 作者: Lindenroth L

Morphological computation in haptic sensation and interaction: from nature to robotics

• DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2018.1447393
• 发表时间: 2018-01-01
• 期刊: ADVANCED ROBOTICS
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Bernth, Julius E.;Van Anh Ho;Liu, Hongbin
• 通讯作者: Liu, Hongbin