​Seminar on Affordable Assistive Devices for Mobility

03 Jun 2019 03.00 PM - 04.00 PM MAE Meeting Room D (Blk N3.2-02-59) Current Students, Public

Professor Sujatha Srinivasan
 
TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2)

This seminar will be hosted by Assoc Prof Domenico Campolo
Seminar Abstract

The Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2) group headed by Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras focuses on the development of orthotic, prosthetic and assistive devices that are biomechanically and economically suited to lifestyles and conditions in low-resource settings. The talk will describe some of the devices currently being developed and field-tested, and present a model for affordable commercialization. Devices under development include a standing wheelchair, a prosthetic knee, a body-motion wheelchair, and an add-on that converts a regular wheelchair into an outdoor mobility device. Prof. Sujatha’s group collaborates with medical professionals, organizations working in the disability sector, and industry and is supported by grants from government funding agencies, alumni, the Wellcome Trust, UK and industries such as the TTK group, among others.

Speaker’s Biography​

Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan founded and heads the TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras. Her research interests are in biomechanics and mechanisms with application to assistive devices. Her group has developed numerous assistive devices like Standing Wheelchair, Body Movement Wheelchair, Prosthetic Knee, Saathi Walker, EZ-LOK Orthotic Knee, and Wheelchair Add-ons for outdoor mobility, among others. She is co-founder of a startup incubated at IIT Madras working on commercializing some of the developed devices. Prior to joining IIT Madras, she worked in the prosthetics industry in the US for about 8 years. She has more than 35 refereed journal and conference publications, 12 US, Indian and international patents granted and 13 Indian Patents pending.   More details are available at https://home.iitm.ac.in/r2d2.

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