Robot Design

Med Amine Laribi is a Professor in the Faculty of Fundamental and Applied Sciences at the University of Poitiers (UP), where he teaches robotics and mechanics. He holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree with a specialization in Mechanical Design from École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir (E.N.I.M.), which he obtained in 2001. He earned an M.S. degree in Mechanical Design in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2005. Additionally, he received a National Habilitation in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2018. His research interests include robot design, mechanism synthesis, cable-driven robots, parallel robots, haptic interfaces, and collaborative robots.Carl Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He obtained his degrees in Mechanical Engineering: a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from The University of Oklahoma in 2000, a Master of Science (M.S.) from Purdue University in 2002, and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) from Purdue University in 2005. His research activities encompass robot design and kinematics, medical devices, and the medical applications of robotics.

• Part 1. Fundamentals (Theory)1. A historical outline on medical robot design2. Design methodology and application to medical robotics3. Robot performance in the context of medical applications4. Human interfaces for medical robotics5. Materials and component selection for medical robot design6. Remote Center of Motion mechanism modeling and optimization7. Reconfigurable robots for medical applications8. Haptics in medicine with simulation and training9. Control strategies / visual-servoing / shared human-robot controlPart 2. Applications10. Endoscopic Robotic System11. Rehabilitation robotics12. Microsurgical Robots13. Maxillofacial laser assisted surgery