Philippe Cinquin, 56, Doctor of Mathematical Sciences and Doctor of Medicine, is Professor of Medical Informatics at Joseph Fourier University (UJF) and a hospital practitioner at Grenoble University Hospital. He heads TIMC-IMAG (Techniques de l'ingénierie médicale et de la complexité - informatique, mathématiques et applications), a joint research unit of UJF and CNRS, and scientifically coordinates the Clinical Investigation Center - Technological Innovation at Grenoble University Hospital. He specializes in GMCAO (computer-assisted medical and surgical gestures), and for several years has been interested in the design of implantable robots capable of drawing their energy directly from physiological media. He coordinates the CAMI (Computer assisted medical interventions) "laboratory of excellence", which brings together the 6 CNRS or INSERM joint research units that have succeeded in designing CAMI devices for clinical use, as well as their clinical and industrial partners. In 1999, he was awarded the Maurice E. Muller medal for excellence in computer-assisted orthopedic surgery, and in 2003 the CNRS silver medal. Towards implantable medical robots: Implanting robots inside the human body seems an attractive way of compensating for the failure of certain vital functions. Such robots need to be able to perceive the patient's physiological state and needs, decide on the best way to serve the patient, and interact with the patient's organs to implement the chosen strategy. The design of implanted robots therefore shares a broad conceptual framework with robotics for assisting medical and surgical procedures. A particular feature is the need to ensure the autonomy of the device's energy supply. We'll show how bio-inspired approaches can take into account the specificities of environments such as extra-cellular physiological fluid to overcome this energy autonomy issue, and we'll illustrate the problem of designing an implantable robot with the example of a robotized urinary artificial sphincter.
14:00 - 15:00
