Horst Complex

prof.dr. S. Misra (Sarthak)

Full Professor Surgical Robotics
ET-BE-SR
Horst Complex W110
s.misra@utwente.nl
+31534892704
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Sarthak Misra joined the University of Twente in 2009. He is a Professor in theĀ Department of Biomechanical EngineeringĀ within theĀ Faculty of Engineering Technology. He directs theĀ Surgical Robotics Laboratory.Ā He is also affiliated with theĀ Department of Biomedical Engineering,Ā University of GroningenĀ andĀ University Medical Center Groningen. Sarthak obtained his doctoral degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.Ā  Prior to commencing his studies at Johns Hopkins, he worked for three years as a dynamics and controls analyst at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates on the International Space Station Program. Sarthak received his Master of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is the recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator, Starting and Proof-of-Concept (thrice) grants, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VENI, VIDI, and VICI awards, Link Foundation fellowship, McGill Major fellowship, and NASA Space Flight Awareness award. He was the co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics, and area co-chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Systems. Sarthakā€™sĀ broad research interests are primarily in the area of applied mechanics at both macro and micro scales. He is interested in the modeling and control of electro-mechanical systems with applications to medical robotics.Ā 

Please visit theĀ Surgical Robotics LaboratoryĀ website for additional details.Ā 

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Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Control

  • Physics

    • Model
    • Magnetic Fields
    • Tissue
    • Needles
    • Shapes
    • Ultrasound

  • Engineering

    • Models

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Ancillary activities

  • University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)UMCG DETACHERING

Publications

2025

Magnetic Nozzleā€Free Embedded 3D (MagNoFE3D) Printing (2025)Advanced Materials Technologies, 10(5). Article 2401097. Piñan Basualdo, F. N., Trikalitis, V. D., Visconti, S., Ficuciello, F., Goulas, C., Rouwkema, J. & Misra, S.https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202401097

2024

Magnetic control of soft microrobots near step-out frequency: Characterization and analysis (2024)Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 25, 165-176. Wang, Z., Li, W., Klingner, A., Pei, Y., Misra, S. & S.M. Khalil, I.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2024.08.022Untethered soft magnetic pump for microfluidics-based Marangoni surfer (2024)Scientific reports, 14. Article 20280. Lin, Y.-H., Piñan Basualdo, F. N., Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. & Misra, S.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-70944-zMagnetic actuation of flexible and soft robotic systems for medical applications (2024)In Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside (pp. 323-355). Academic Press. Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, V. & Misra, S.Experimental Evaluation of Haptic Shared Control for Multiple Electromagnetic Untethered Microrobots (2024)IEEE transactions on automation science and engineering (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Ferro, M., Pinan Basualdo, F. N., Giordano, P. R., Misra, S. & Pacchierotti, C.https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2024.3477308Magnetic alginate microrobots with dual-motion patterns through centrifugally driven flow control (2024)Materials & Design, 246. Article 113337. Wang, Z., Li, W., Li, C., Klingner, A., Pei, Y., Misra, S. & Khalil, I. S. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113337Selectively Tunable Joints With Variable Stiffness for a Magnetically-Steerable 6-DOF Manipulator (2024)IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 6(4), 1713-1725. Frieler, S., Misra, S. & Venkiteswaran, V. K.https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464668Miniaturized Variable Stiffness Gripper Locally Actuated by Magnetic Fields (2024)Advanced Intelligent Systems, 6(9). Article 2400037. Masjosthusmann, L., Richter, M., Makushko, P., Makarov, D. & Misra, S.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400037Fluidic control programming for 3D magnetic soft metamaterials with reconfigurable mechanical behaviors (2024)Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(8). Article 102125. Wang, Z., Misra, S. & Venkiteswaran, V. K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102125Fin-Wave-Inspired Wireless Small-Scale Soft Robot for Adaptive Amphibious Locomotion under Single-Mode Magnetic Field (2024)In 2024 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS). IEEE. Wang, C., Misra, S. & Venkiteswaran, V. K.https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS61851.2024.10612739

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