During the first half of the course timeframe, students will attend lectures on
- Geometrical transformations in space
- Computer assisted surgical interventions and image guided surgery
- Robots kinematics (direct and inverse), robot Jacobian
- Dynamics (direct and inverse)
- Robot control – force/ position control
Practical lectures will be based on Matlab Tools for robotics.
Visits to robotics laboratories in prestigious Italian research centres will be scheduled, as well as seminars by surgeons using robotic devices in the current routine.
Small research projects will be assigned to group of students. Students activities will be supervised by laboratory assistants (www.nearlab.polimi.it/medical ).

It should be noted that this is a limited number access course. The mandatory procedure for access request is here (http://www.ccsbio.polimi.it/)

The exam will consist in a written part (based on solving a small programming task, which will be also offered in the half term) and oral, including the demonstration of the research project results.