UNIPI Team Leader: Prof. Mauro Ferrari, Dip. di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologia in Medicina e Chirurgia

ATLAS is a Marie Curie European Joint Doctorate school that targets the training of experts in a very specific branch of Robotic Surgery.

ATLAS stands for “AuTonomous intraLuminAl Surgery”. Intraluminal navigation, a particularly challenging branch, reappears in many minimal invasive surgical (MIS) interventions that rely on steering flexible instruments through fragile lumens or vessels.

The project will develop smart flexible robots that autonomously propel through complex deformable tubular structures. This calls for seamless integration of sensors, actuators, modelling and control. By engaging in this ambitious research topic, participants will be exposed to all aspects of robotics.

While contributing to the state of the art, they will become proficient in building, modelling, testing, interfacing in short in integrating basic building blocks into systems that display sophisticated behavior.

Coordinator:
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium

Partner:

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA, Italy
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Italy
• UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, France
• SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA. Italy
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, Netherlands
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA, Spain

Start date: 1/04/2019

End date: 31/03/2023

Project cost: 3.944.509 €

Call Title: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018

UNIPI Role: Partner organization

Project website: https://atlas-itn.eu/