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Jason Pile


Contact Info

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Olin Hall Room 407
2400 Highland Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

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Education and Work Experience

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University 2010

Assistant Staff Engineer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2005~2009

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University 2005

Co-op student, Bluefin Robotics 2003

 

Research Interests

  • Mechanism synthesis
  • Surgical tool design

Current Projects

  • Robotic insertion of cochlear implants

Publications

Journal Articles

Pile, J., Simaan, N. "Modeling, Design and Evaluation of a Parallel Robot for Cochlear Implant Surgery" IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2014.2308479(accepted)

Rohani, R., Pile, J.,Kahrs, L. A., Balachandran, R. Blachon, G.S., Simaan, N., Labadie, R.F., "Forces and Trauma Associated with Minimally-Invasive, Image-Guided Cochlear Implantation", Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2013 (submitted)


Conference Proceedings
Pile, J., Wanna, G. B., Simaan N. "Force-Based Flexible Path Plans for Robotic Electrode Insertion",2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014 (accepted)

Pile, J., Simaan, N., "Characterization of Friction and Speed Effects and Methods for Detection of Cochlear Implant Electrode Tip Fold-over", 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013

Pile, J., Simaan, N., "Algorithms and Design Considerations for Robot Assisted Insertion of Perimodiolar Electrode Arrays", 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai , China, 2011


Abstracts and Posters
Pile, J., Tsay, I. A., Dalton, J., Balachandran, R., Labadie, R. F., Simaan, N. "Speed Dependence of Insertion Forces During CI Electrode Insertion" 12th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, 2012.

Pile, J., Tsay, I. A., Dalton, J., Treaba, C., Simaan, N. "Design Feasibility Study of a Rapidly Deployable CI Robotic Tool" 12th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, 2012.