Home Department: Computer Science
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Joseph Woo, Cardiothoracic Surgery

On the path to building completely autonomous surgical robots, Alexandra’s Bio-X USRP project will explore the challenge of building a simulated surgical environment using computer visualization and graphics. In this virtual environment, she will test motion planning algorithms to execute surgical tasks.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2017:

Early Steps Towards Automating Surgical Tasks Through Physics and Soft-Body Simulation

Alexandra Bourdillon¹, Animesh Garg², Hanjay Wang¹, Jack Boyd¹, Marco Pavone³, Joseph Woo¹
[Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery¹, Computer Science², and Aeronautics & Astronautics³, Stanford University]