Robot Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery
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Cochlear implant surgery allows surgeons to restore partial hearing to patients suffering from severe hearing loss due to damaged neuroepithelial (hair) cells. During this surgery surgeons insert long, thin, and flimsy electrodes into the scala tympani inside cochlea. Our goal is to develop a robotic system to help surgeons achieve atraumatic cochlear implant surgery using novel steerable cochlear implant electrode arrays. The research focuses on path planning for robotic-assisted insertion of steerable electrode arrays into 3D cavities (scala tympani) using partial force feedback information. An example of an early experimental system used for testing some of our insertion path planning algorithms is shown in the following figure.
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