Vignesh Manoj Varier

• Master's Student
• Robotics Engineering
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Contact Information

• Lab
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • Room 230 (Beside RBE office)
  • Phone: 508-831-5191
• Mailing Address
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • 2nd Floor, Robotics Engineering
  • Worcester, MA 01605
• E-mail
• vvarier@wpi.edu

Education

• M.S., Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, class of 2020
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, class of 2017

Research Interests

• Surgical Robotics
• Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
• Teleoperation, Motion Planning and Perception
• Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
• Human Exoskeletons
• Healthcare Robotics

About Me

As a young boy watching movies like Ironman and Big Hero 6, I was enthralled mainly not by the animation, the characters, the story line or the music, but the idea of healthcare and medical robotics. I have been trying to update my knowledge and would love to work on integrating modern science and robotics to bring about a revolution in the medical world. I am currently pursuing my thesis automating suturing tasks for the daVinci surgical robot system. I have completed a summer long internship at Medtronic, where I got to work on their surgical robot (still in development). I have previously worked on the active version of the AIM lab lower limb exoskeleton, improving dynamic characteristics of the dVRk and developing computed torque control module for AMBF (dynamic simulator created at AIM lab).