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Publications are updated as of July 2009

Research Interests

• Planning procedures for medical interventions
• Optimal robot design
• Genetic algorithms and multiobjective optimization
• Inverse kinematics and manipulability of medical robots
• Patient registration

Current Projects

• BFS Project MiroSurge - A Universal, Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot System for the Surgery of the Future (since 10/2006)

• EU Project AccuRobAs - The Accurate Robot Assistant (since 10/2006)
  6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6)

• DFG Project (01.06.2005 – 31.05.2008):
  Surface Based Registration of Patients in Brain Surgery Using a Handheld 3D-Modeller

• DFG Collaborative Research Center 453 - High Fidelity Telepresence and Teleaction Wirklichkeitsnahe Telepräsenz und Teleaktion

Finished Projects

• KineMedic
  Goal of this project is the development of a robot prototype for the navigated placement of pedicle screws in the human spine.
  Cooperation with the company BrainLAB AG
• BFS (Bayerische Forschungsstiftung) NaviPed
  Entwicklung eines navigationsunterstützten halbautomatischen Robotersystems für die Platzierung von Pedikelschrauben an der menschlichen Wirbelsäule (9/02-12/04)
  BrainLAB AG / Technische Universität München - Klinik für Orthopädie und Sportorthopädie Abteilung Biomechanik Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau / DLR - Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik

Colleagues in the medical field

• Please follow this link for a list of colleagues working in the medical field

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