Project: Robot cable for radiation mapping
This project consists in building a cable-driven parallel robot capable of moving a dosimeter in a liquid (water tank) with a high accuracy for radiotherapy applications. A cable robot architecture is preferred in order to minimize the liquid perturbations caused by the robot motion. Moreover, this architecture allows the dosimeter to be positioned at prescribed angles with respect to the beam irradiation. Such a device should allow to map the radiations and thus to better predict their distribution in radiotherapy treatments in addition to allowing a better angular characterization of the dosimeters. Furthermore, to have a better interaction between the medical physicist and the robot, a new graphical interface and an intuitive navigation method will be developed to view the irradiation field and reprogram the robot trajectory. This intuitive remote operation will form a new procedure to release the medical physicist from visualization and arithmetic efforts so that he or she can focus on higher-level tasks.
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