The progress made by a team of sophomore ZJUI students is making waves on an international stage. Kaiwen Hong and Yue Sun, sophomores in mechanical engineering, worked with Jiale He, sophomore in computer engineering, on a robotic surgery training system. Prof. Liangjing Yang advised the team. Their work was presented by Kaiwen at the 14th Asian Computer-Assisted Surgery Conference, held at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. Their conference paper, "A Preliminary Design of a Robotic System for Kinaesthetic Training of Surgical Tasks," was also selected for the IET Journal of Engineering, and was published in September 2019.
Th project explores how training can be improved for surgical robots. The team considered kinematics principles and operational path requirements. They simulated system operation, and tested it with an open-source robot arm drive.
Prof. Yang is enthusiastic about student participation in cutting-edge research. He reports that “ZJUI students are very motivated to achieve the ultimate goal set by the project. Their research participation is not related to an in-class grade, which means it is purely an extracurricular effort, so it requires self-motivation. The main participant, student Kaiwen Hong, has a very positive attitude. He is eager to challenge difficult problems and tasks and willing to delve into material beyond the classroom experience. All of these students will become cross-disciplinary experts.”
Kaiwen Hong（ME）
Yue Sun（ME）
Jiale He（ECE）
We welcome students who would like to participate in research work and are interested in robotics, computer vision or medical imaging.
Email：liangjingyang@intl.zju.edu.cn
Homepage：https://person.zju.edu.cn/ylj
Photo/Writer：Yang Liangjing Research team
Edit:Hang Wu
Translator:Tingkai Liu
