Medical Devices

Equipment used in the health care industry that use CPS technology.
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Visible to the public Design & Development of a Cybernetic Rehabilitative Hand-Wrist Exoskeleton

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Robotic devices are excellent candidates for delivering repetitive and intensive practice that can restore functional use of the upper limbs, even years after a stroke. Rehabilitation of the wrist and hand in particular are critical for recovery of function, since hands are the primary interface with the world. However, robotic devices that focus on hand rehabilitation are limited due to excessive cost, complexity, or limited functionality.

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Visible to the public A Framework for Validation and Monitoring of Robotic Surgery Systems

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The objective of this research is the development of a framework for assessing the reliability and safety of robotic surgery systems during development, field testing, and general deployment. The framework uses accurate simulations to assess pre-clinical reliability before deployment. After deployment, the framework uses data collection through online monitoring of the system as it is being used in the field, followed by analysis to obtain assessments of operational reliability and safety.

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Visible to the public Cyber-physical Integration for Digital Microfluidic Biochips

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The goal of this project is to integrate digital microfluidics systems with thin-film photodetectors in the top plate to realize biochemical target sensing using fluorescence. System control, adaptation, and reconfiguration through software will lead to a general-purpose lab-on-chip computing platform, in the same way as programmable computing devices allow multifunctional capabilities via software on a hardware platform.

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Visible to the public Body Sensor Networks: A Holistic Approach from Silicon to Users

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Body sensor networks (BSN) are emerging cyber-physical systems that promise to improve the quality of life through improved health, augmented sensing and actuation for the disabled, independent living for the elderly, and reduced healthcare costs. However, the physical nature of BSNs introduces several new challenges. The human body, especially in the context of medical conditions, is a highly dynamic and unpredictable physical environment that creates constantly changing demands on sensing, actuation, and quality of service (QoS).

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Visible to the public Trustworthy Composition of Dynamic App-Centric Architectures for Medical Application Platforms

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Medical devices are typically developed as stand-alone units. Current industrial Verification and Validation (V&V) tech- niques primarily target stand-alone systems. Moreover, the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulatory clearance processes are designed to approve such devices that are integrated by a single manufacturer with complete control over all components.

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Visible to the public Foundations of Cyber-Physical Networks

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Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) integrate physical devices (e.g., sensors, cameras) with cyber components to form a situation-aware analytical system. The overall research objective of the project is to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors. Here we provide an overview of our recent research achievements:

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Visible to the public Assuring the Safety, Security and Reliability of Medical Device Cyber Physical Systems

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Recent years have seen medical devices go from being monolithic to a collection of integrated systems. Modern medical device systems have thus become a distinct class of cyber-physical systems called Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS), featuring complex and close interaction of sophisticated treatment algorithms with the physical aspects of the system, and especially the patient whose safety is of the utmost concern. The goal of this project is to develop a new paradigm for the design and implementation of safe, secure, and reliable MCPS, which includes:

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Visible to the public Secure Telerobotics

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Telerobotic systems, such as those used in rescue operations, remotely-operated vehicles or the next-generation robotic surgery, human operators interact with robots through a communi- cation network.

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Visible to the public Towards Neural-controlled Artificial Legs using High-Performance Embedded Computers

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The objective of this study is to develop a high-performance and robust neural-machine interface (NMI) for artificial legs, which can accurately and reliably identify user intent in real-time.

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Visible to the public Holistic Design Methodology for Automated Implementation of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems

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Our overarching goal is to develop a framework for design automation of cyber-physical systems that augment human-in-the-loop inference and interaction by complex systems operating at the interface of computation and physical environment.