{"id":2077,"date":"2013-03-06T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:20","slug":"nsf-grant-to-help-engineers-accelerate-development-of-medical-capsule-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/nsf-grant-to-help-engineers-accelerate-development-of-medical-capsule-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF grant to help engineers accelerate development of medical capsule robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2080\" title=\"Valdastri_Pietro\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2013\/03\/19171109\/Valdastri_Pietro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"134\" \/>The four-year project \u2013 Cyber-Physical Systems: Integrated Modeling,  Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices \u2013 involves creating  cyber-physical design and simulation platforms to capture the  computational and physical components of tiny devices designed to work  inside the human body. By eliminating large incisions in favor of  natural orifices or small ports, these medical devices can increase  diagnostic screening effectiveness and reduce pain and recovery time.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built  from and depend upon the synergy of computational and physical  components. Examples of the many CPS applications include the smart  electric grid, smart buildings, smart medical technologies, next-generation air traffic management and advanced manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The team is led by Pietro Valdastri, the principal investigator and  assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and includes Akos  Ledeczi, associate professor of electrical engineering and senior  research scientist; Peter Volgyesi, research scientist, electrical  engineering; and Robert Webster, assistant professor of mechanical  engineering.<\/p>\n<p>For full story details please see: <a title=\"Medical Capsule Robots\" href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2012\/nsf-grant-to-help-engineers-accelerate-development-of-medical-capsule-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2012\/nsf-grant-to-help-engineers-accelerate-development-of-medical-capsule-robots\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four-year project \u2013 Cyber-Physical Systems: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices \u2013 involves creating cyber-physical design and simulation platforms to capture the computational and physical components of tiny devices designed to work inside the human body. By eliminating large incisions in favor of natural orifices or small ports, these medical devices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/03\/19171109\/capsule-small.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-xv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}