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Mike Blackwell
Senior Research Engineer

No longer a member of RI.

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Past Labs & Groups

Mobile Robot Lab - Engaging in long-term basic research in perception, control and planning for robots that navigate through complex indoor and outdoor spaces.

Past Projects

Demeter - The Demeter project is developing a next-generation self-propelled hay harvester for agricultural operations.	High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery - High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery
Hip Navigation System - Preoperative and intraoperative planning and execution system for high-precision total hip replacement.	Surgical Robotics for Orthopaedics - Development of robotic milling techniques for precision orthopaedic surgery

Recent publications [View all 21 publications]

• An image guided navigation system to intraoperatively measure acetabular implant alignment.
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, and M. Blackwell
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 357, December, 1998.

• Augmented Reality and its Future in Orthopaedics
  M. Blackwell, F. Morgan, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, September, 1998.

• Computer assisted measurement of cup placement in total hip replacement.
  B. Jaramaz, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, M. Blackwell, and C. Nikou
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 354, September, 1998.

• HipNav: A Surgical Navigation and Measurement Tool for Placement of Acetabular Implant in Total Hip Replacement
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, and M. Blackwell
  June, 1998.

• Image Overlay Techniques for Surgery
  M. Blackwell, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and C. Nikou
  June, 1998.

• An Image Guided Surgical Navigation System for the Accurate Measurement and Alignment of Acetabular Implants
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, and M. Blackwell
  March, 1998.

• Intraoperative Measurement of Pelvic and Acetabular Component Alignment Using an Image Guided Navigational Tool
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, D. Simon, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, F.M. Morgan, and B.D. Colgan
  March, 1998.

• An Image Guided Navigation System for Accurate Alignment in Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, D. Simon, F. Morgan, J.E. Moody, C. Nikou, B. Colgan, C. Aston, R. LaBarca, E. Kischell, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [836 KB], ps.gz [2471 KB] copyrighted

• An image overlay system for medical data visualization
  M. Blackwell, C. Nikou, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 1998 Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI '98), 1998.
  Download: pdf [115 KB] copyrighted

• Development and Validation of a Navigational Guidance System for Acetabular Implant Placement
  D. Simon, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, F. Morgan, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, E. Kischell, B. Colgan, and T. Kanade
  Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, March, 1997, pp. 583-592.
  Download: pdf [416 KB], ps.gz [542 KB] copyrighted