Projects

Summary

In recent years, advances in artificial intelligence in robotics have enabled applications to be developed in non-structured environments, including medicine. MIRAIA focuses on the development of perception technologies that enable a surgical assistant robot to interact safely and flexibly in operating theatres by improving the precision of procedures, thus reducing risks for patients and optimising clinical results.

Objectives

• Integrate advanced perception hardware and develop artificial intelligence models for real-time monitoring. 
• Monitor the patient’s position, surgical instruments and robot with great precision within the system control cycle. 
• Interpret the activity and any obstacles in the surgical environment with a view to adapting robot functioning to changes in real time. 

Ceit’s role

Ceit is researching into new perception methods based on artificial intelligence (neural networks) using 3D vision systems such as stereo chambers and RGB-D with which to monitor the position of the patient, medical team and the robot itself. It does this by integrating this data into a prototype robotic system capable of operating in real time.