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Morimoto Lab - UC San Diego
Owen is an undergraduate researcher working in the Morimoto Lab on two surgical soft robotic systems.Â
Serially Connected Soft Continuum Robot for Endovascular Emergencies
This robotic system combines a notched continuum robot and an eversion based, soft growing robot or "vine" robot to navigate the endovascular system to provide minimally invasive stroke treatment. Owen is designing and fabricating the mechatronic systems and writing and implementing PID control algorithms to drive the actuation of the notched continuum robot and "vine" robot during in vivo animal studies at both UC San Diego's Center for Future Surgery and Stanford working with Professor Jeremy J. Heit.
Owen has helped test the system in vivo multiple times in pig studies at UC San Diego and Stanford, operating the controls for the system during the studies. Further pig studies will be conducted with the system.
Optical Biopsy Vine Project
This system is a project in collaboration with Professor Lisa Poulikakos at UC San Diego with the goal of improving the ease of detection of flat polyps in the colon and creating a minimally invasive, easy to use biopsy device using a "vine" robot system. Owen is leading a team of three other undergraduate researchers in Morimoto Lab to design, fabricate, and test the "vine" robot system. The system consists of a vine with a retraction channel and an origami polarizer/camera unit at the tip of the vine. The polarizer/camera unit makes use of a Kresling pattern origami structure in order to rotate a polarizer under a vacuum to allow the camera to capture frames at many different polarization states.
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