Development of “CorPath”, the first surgical robot in production for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, and the constructive methods used in its design

When:
January 12, 2016 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm America/New York Timezone
2016-01-12T18:00:00-05:00
2016-01-12T21:00:00-05:00
Where:
Olin College
1000 Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492
USA

Presented by Dr. Nicholas Kottenstette & Brett Prince

Doors open: 6:00 P.M.
Presentation: 6:30 P.M.
Dinner: 8:00 P.M.

Olin College
1000 Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492
Milas Hall Auditorium

Minimally invasive surgical robotic systems are typically classified as Class II medical devices by the FDA. The CorPath is the only robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) System cleared by the FDA. As such, the CorPath has cleared a rigorous verification and validation process in order to achieve FDA approval. This process includes verifying the embedded control software used to control the robotic drive system.
Model based methods are presently being used to both simulate and deploy control software for our next generation robotic systems. Specifically the embedded control software has been derived using constructive methods in order to provide rigorous stability analysis which can be verified in deployment. We shall first provide an overview of Corindus Vascular Robotics and its flagship CorPath product. We shall then provide a more general discussion on how constructive methods can be used for networked control of robotic systems.

Constructive methods typically exploit physical properties of the system in order to construct low complexity controllers which in practice are easy to tune and robust to system uncertainty. Typically the discrete time implementation of the respective control system can be achieved at modest sampling rates. However, when lower sampling rates and significant time varying delays need to be considered then digital control networks consisting of wave variables can be used to control interior conic dissipative systems. Robotic systems are a special class of interior conic dissipative systems in which we shall demonstrate force feedback telemanipulation architectures which allows one to (in)directly exchange position information.

Dr. Nicholas Kottenstette is currently the Principal Control Systems Engineer at Corindus Vascular robotics. A senior member of IEEE, he holds a MS from the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Notre Dame. His research develops constructive resilient networked control principles for Cyber Physical Systems. The principles he has developed apply to nonlinear affine systems, including medical robotic systems, fixed wing aircraft, quadrotor aircraft, robotic, thermal, semiconductor manufacturing, alternative energy generation, digital signal processing, and suspension systems. He has authored or coauthor of over 50 publications, including 14 US patents.

Brett Prince joined Corindus in September 2012, bringing significant Sales and Marketing experience, as well as his experience as Director of Product Management at Precision Therapeutics. While at General Electric he held a variety of sales and marketing leadership roles in both the life-sciences and imaging divisions. Mr. Prince holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan.

UNHOSTED DINNER

Bertucci’s
1257 Highland Ave.
Needham, MA 02492

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