The entire complex includes four technologies
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:20 am
MO scientists have developed a universal robotic complex for processing the surfaces of medical products. With its help, metal implants can be given antibacterial and biocompatible properties, as well as marked. The complex is easy to use: to get the desired effect, just load a 3D model of the implant into a special program, set the processing trajectory and select the mode.
The surface of bone implants bulgaria whatsapp resource must be biocompatible and antibacterial for better survival. Other medical devices also need these properties. Personalized labeling is also important for them, which, among other things, helps the doctor quickly select the right medical instrument on the operating table. Classic methods of surface treatment (for example, sandblasting - "shooting" surfaces with sand or other abrasive material to give them roughness) require a lot of expenditure on consumables. In addition, they cannot give implants several functions at once: improving some properties often reduces the effectiveness of others.
Scientists from ITMO have proposed a comprehensive solution that will allow obtaining medical implants and instruments with all the necessary properties at once. This is a robotic system consisting of a laser installation, a six-axis robotic manipulator, and software. The laser installation, equipped with a galvanometric scanning system, is responsible for high processing accuracy - it was assembled and provided by the industrial partner of the project, Laser Center LLC. The robot has built-in computer vision, thanks to which the system adapts to the exact position and geometry of the product.
technologies for imparting antibacterial and biocompatible properties, surface roughness control and application of colored identification marks.
"To combine all the components into one "smart" system, we developed software. This is the intelligence of the complex, which analyzes the task set by the operator and issues commands to the robotic complex in the "online" mode. The software is written in industrial programming languages C and C++ using modern technologies. The program has a user-friendly interface: the engineer only needs to load a 3D model of the implant, mark the areas for processing and select the operating mode of the laser installation - power, duration, speed and frequency of the radiation pulses. If necessary, the computer vision algorithms implemented in the software will "prompt" the program how to adjust the process for a specific product," said Fedor Inochkin, research fellow at the ITMO Institute of Laser Technologies.
Before implementing all four technologies into the robotic system, the authors of the project researched and tested each of them. In vitro (on cells) and in vivo (on living organisms) experiments were conducted in partnership with colleagues from the Samara State Medical University.
The surface of bone implants bulgaria whatsapp resource must be biocompatible and antibacterial for better survival. Other medical devices also need these properties. Personalized labeling is also important for them, which, among other things, helps the doctor quickly select the right medical instrument on the operating table. Classic methods of surface treatment (for example, sandblasting - "shooting" surfaces with sand or other abrasive material to give them roughness) require a lot of expenditure on consumables. In addition, they cannot give implants several functions at once: improving some properties often reduces the effectiveness of others.
Scientists from ITMO have proposed a comprehensive solution that will allow obtaining medical implants and instruments with all the necessary properties at once. This is a robotic system consisting of a laser installation, a six-axis robotic manipulator, and software. The laser installation, equipped with a galvanometric scanning system, is responsible for high processing accuracy - it was assembled and provided by the industrial partner of the project, Laser Center LLC. The robot has built-in computer vision, thanks to which the system adapts to the exact position and geometry of the product.
technologies for imparting antibacterial and biocompatible properties, surface roughness control and application of colored identification marks.
"To combine all the components into one "smart" system, we developed software. This is the intelligence of the complex, which analyzes the task set by the operator and issues commands to the robotic complex in the "online" mode. The software is written in industrial programming languages C and C++ using modern technologies. The program has a user-friendly interface: the engineer only needs to load a 3D model of the implant, mark the areas for processing and select the operating mode of the laser installation - power, duration, speed and frequency of the radiation pulses. If necessary, the computer vision algorithms implemented in the software will "prompt" the program how to adjust the process for a specific product," said Fedor Inochkin, research fellow at the ITMO Institute of Laser Technologies.
Before implementing all four technologies into the robotic system, the authors of the project researched and tested each of them. In vitro (on cells) and in vivo (on living organisms) experiments were conducted in partnership with colleagues from the Samara State Medical University.