Past Research Projects

The following works are achieved by Grad students and Ph.D students:

Hardware-in-the-Loop Telerobotic Surgery Simulator

Human Cognition Assisted Control of Industrial Robots in Manufacturing

Learning from Demonstration

Medical Image Registration on Tumor Growth with Time Series

Rehabilitation Haptics

Spatial Cognition of Robots

 

The following projects are funded by ARCHES and are achieved or cooperated with researchers and Grad students in HCESC VRLAB:

Safety and Reliability of Surgical Robots via Simulation
Ravishankar Iyer – Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois; David Crawford – OSF HealthCare, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Simulation Training for Mechanical Circulatory Support using Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Adult Patients
Pramod Chembrammel – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois; Matthew Bramlet – OSF HealthCare, Jump Simulation Center and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Movement Impairment Characterization and Rehabilitation for Dystonic Cerebral Palsy Using Robotic Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality
Citlali Lopez-Oritz – Kinesiology at the University of Illinois; Stephen LaValle – Computer Science at the University of Illinois; Julian Lin – OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

irwayVR Virtual Reality Based Trainer for Endotracheal Intubation
Pavithra Rajeswaran – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois; Eric M. Bugaieski and Praveen Kumar, OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Simulation Training for Mechanical Circulatory Support Using Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Adult Patients– Round 2 Funding
Pramod Chembrammel – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois; Matthew Bramlet – OSF HealthCare, Jump Simulation Center and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Interactive Mixed Reality (IMR) based Medical Curriculum for Medical Education
Kesh Kesavadas – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois; John Vozenilek – OSF HealthCare, Jump Simulation Center and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Flexible, Low-cost, Single Port Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical Platform– Round 2 Funding
Placid Ferreira – Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois; Edmund Yang – OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Activate Capture and Digital Counting (AC+DC) Technology for Ultrasensitive and Rapid Characterization of miRNA Blood borne Biomarkers for ALS
Dr. Vahid Tohidi – OSF HealthCare; Brian Cunningham – The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois

Improving Outcomes and Training of Pectus Excavatum
Dr. Paul Jeziorczak – OSF HealthCare; Inki Kim – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois

Skill Assessment in Surgery and Microsurgery
Dr. Heidi Phillips – College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois; T. Kesavadas – Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois

Virtual Reality to Deliver Psychotherapy to Lung Cancer Patients with Depression
Dr. Rhonda L. Johnson – OSF HealthCare; Rosalba Hernandez – School of Social Work at the University of Illinois

 

VR lab at University of Illinois also has a rich history of contributions to this field going back to 1996 when Prof. Kesavadas set up the first lab at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

@University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visible heart project (link)
VR museum tour

@State University of New York at Buffalo
RoSS : The Virtual Reality Lab at UB and the Roswell Park Center for Robotic Surgery have developed the next generation virtual reality simulator for training surgeons on da Vinci® surgical system. This product is now being marketed by Simulated Surgical Systems LLC.

NSF Haptic Writing Simulator : The Virtual Reality Lab at UB has developed a writing simulator to teach the learner to write like the master by recreating the masters haptic writing attributes using force feedback. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

HAPSTICK : High Fidelity Haptic Simulation for Billiards

Fingertip Digitizer : Applying Haptics and Biomechanics to Tactile Input Technology