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.”

该文针对机器人手术训练系统的初步设计概念展开研究，根据运动学原理与操作路径需求设定设计参数，通过模拟软件工具进行仿真与分析，利用现有的开源机械手臂开发套件拓展机械手臂的驱动、传感与控制机能，并以实验测试验证设计理念。

杨教授对ZJUI学生积极主动参与科研活动给予了高度肯定，他表示，ZJUI学生们整体都很有上进心，能够自觉主动，按照项目所设定的里程碑完成最终目标。在他们的现阶段，科研参与并不和成绩挂钩，纯属课余兴趣，因此需要一定的自发性与自我推动力。本项目主要参与学生洪凯文态度积极，他比一般学生更勇于挑战高难度的问题和任务，愿意深入探讨课堂上未接触过的东西，非常具有成为复合型人才的潜力。

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