Principal Investigator – Pietro Valdastri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

PhD in Bioengineering fromScuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

p.valdastri [at] vanderbilt.edu

CV Publications

Post-Docs

Erdem Erdemir

erdem.erdemir [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Swimming Robots for Colonoscopy

 

Graduate Students

Christian Di Natali

christian.di.natali [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Local magnetic actuation for surgical robots

 

 

 

Marco Beccani

marco.beccani [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Wireless Capsule Robots

 

 

Charreau S. Bell

charreau.s.bell [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: High Level Control for Medical Robots

 

 

 

Trevor L. Bruns

trevor.l.bruns [at] vanderbilt.edu

Magnetically Controlled Surgical Robots

 

 

Undergraduate Students

David J.Cunningham

david.j.cunningham [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Local magnetic actuation for surgical robots

 

 

Nathan E. Hall

nathan.e.hall [at] vanderbilt.edu

Real-time pose detection for magnetic capsule robots

 

 

Victoria R. Mitchell

victoria.r.mitchell [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Tetherless insufflation for wireless capsule colonoscopy

 

 

 

Brian Fang

brian.fang [at] vanderbilt.edu

Research: Tetherless insufflation for wireless capsule colonoscopy

 

 

Lab Alumni

Massimiliano Simi

Trans-Abdominal Active Magnetic Link

Current Position: Mechanical Design Engineer, MEDra s.r.l.,Pisa, Italy

 

 

Sissi Battaglia

Research: Tetherless insufflation of human colon

Current Position: Research Assistant, Ospedale Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

 

Lorenza Angelini

Research: Smart Mechanisms to Avoid Bowel Preparation in Colonoscopy

 

 

 

Giulia Bassani

Research:
Real-Time Localization of Magnetic Capsule Robots