Projet ATLAS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In modern surgery body lumens increasingly serve as access route to deeply located anatomic regions. Navigation through narrow and mostly fragile and deformable lumens requires considerable skill, dexterity and consequently imposes a large mental load. Visualization is notoriously poor. Due to phenomena such as slack, backlash and compliance the controllability of the instruments is bad. Surgeons undergo steep learning curves and even experienced surgeons often lack confidence about their gestures. Surgical risks including internal bleeding, tissue damage, puncture or rupture are imminent. ATLAS will produce a generation of European researchers that will develop robotic skills and techniques to automate complex surgical intraluminal therapies. Due to physiological phenomena or the surgical action the anatomy changes considerably, reducing the value of pre-operative data and imaging. Compliant instruments must be employed to navigate through lumens. As they proceed they deform and undergo complex and distributed contacts with the fragile environment. Step changes in intra-operative and distributed sensing, real-time modeling and 3D reconstruction, decision-making, intra-operative planning and autonomous control will be made to deal with the extreme variability that is encountered. Whereas assistive technology for steering flexible endoscopes, ureteroscopes, colonoscopes, guidewires and vascular catheters has been notoriously disparate and incoherent, ATLAS will develop and train researchers in identifying and exploiting the commonalities amongst these cases. This generalization will lead to a rigorous unified framework and guidelines to deploy assistive techniques tailored to each specific therapy. The ATLAS consortium consists of Europe’s leading institutes in the field of surgery automation and design and control of flexible instruments. It is backed up by a broad set of clinical and industrial partners that are eager to get involved in subsequent exploitation.

Mots clés : autonomous navigation, minimal invasive surgery, continuum robotics, 3d reconstruction, active catheters, novel actuation and sensing, vascular surgery, colonoscopy, ureteroscopy

Participants :
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 250904.88 €
- Am2m spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia spolka komandytowa (Pologne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Deam bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Politecnico di Milano (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 522999.36 €
- University of Pisa (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 522999.36 €
- Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Verona (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 522999.36 €
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Eye-tech srl (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Delft University of Technology (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 531239.76 €
- Orobix srl (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 768960.0 €
- Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fbgs international (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Camelot Biomedical Systems (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Strasbourg (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 824406.12 €
- Institut de recherche contre les cancers de l'appareil digestif (France) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €