# 62: Surgical Drill End-Effector

Project ID: 62
Team Members: Sandesh Amgai, Rupak Luitel, Ayush Thapa, Prince Agrawal, Colton Bass, Mukunda Thakali
Faculty Advisor(s): Robert Woods
Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Project Type: Senior Design
Title: Surgical Drill End-Effector
Abstract: Medtronic Powered Surgical Solutions has led the race in supplying effective and top-notch medical instruments throughout the country. Their drive to increase the efficiency of the instruments by automating them for point accuracy is evident from the range of equipment they provide to the medical centers in the city. The recent issue in manual handling of surgical drills is imminent to Metro Controls Inc. We propose an end-effector for a robot capable of holding the surgical drill. The ongoing issue of the instability of the human hand and the difficulty for surgeons to perform hour-long operations manually, resulting in hand soreness after holding the drill for a long amount of time is well known. Our end-effector will replicate the stiffness of a human hand and hold the drill as a human hand. The designed end-effector will be a tube packed with an experimental foam material that has the compliance of a human hand which will be attached to a robot. The robot will maneuver in a workspace with our end-effector holding the tool and performing cutting operations on the bone.
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