Sven Kolb, M.Sc.

Contact

Room: Forschungsgruppe MITI, 1st floor

           Trogerstraße 10, 81675 Munich

Phone: +49 (0)89 4140-7385

Email: sven.kolb(at)tum.de

Research Focus

  • Diagnostic Telemedicine
  • Robotics and Automation in Biomedical Engineering

Current Projects

6G-life

Semiautonomous telerobotic examination suite
The provision of medical expertise is limited in many areas of the world due to centralisation of health systems and poor infrastructure. There is also a shortage of specialised doctors and nurses. One goal of the 6G-life project is to reduce the imbalance between metropolitan and rural areas by establishing medical telepresence and high-precision telediagnostics. A prototypical demonstrator for a mobile telemedical system integrating 6G network concepts is to be developed, which is equipped for acute and elective diagnostics.

Student Research Projects

2024

  • Master's thesis: Development of a User Interface for Telemedical Robotic Applications
  • Research internship: Implementation of a Containerized Setup for the Semiautonomous Telerobotic Examination Suite
  • Master's thesis: Improving Patient Safety in Telerobotic Examinations using Artificial Potential Fields and Pose Estimation
  • Research internship: Detailed requirement analysis for the reliability and availability of medical network communication
  • Team project: Semiautonomous Telerobotic Auscultation with Surface Normal Estimation (completed)
  • Team project: Patient Safety-aware Telemedical Interface (completed)
  • Clinical application project: Further Development of a Telerobotic Examination Suite for the Integration of Multi-User Scenarios (completed)
  • Master's thesis: Robot-assisted Ultrasound Examination: Mitigate Network Delay (completed)

2023

  • Master's thesis: Development of a Container-Based Control System for Robotic Teleoperation Using Fused Sensor Data (completed)
  • Team project: Improving Patient Safety through Movement Tracking during Telerobotic Examinations (completed)

Publications

2024

  • Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Wilhelm, Dirk; Kellerer, Wolfgang (2024) Processing Modular Application Functions in Future Medical 6G Radio Access Networks. In: 2024 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Paris, France, 1-6. doi.org/10.1109/WiMob61911.2024.10770333
  • Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Kolb, Sven; Mehmeti, Fidan; Martens, Eimo; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk; Fuchtmann, Jonas (2024) 6G networks for the operating room of the future. In: Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 6(4). doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/ad819c 
  • Kolb, Sven; Jurosch, Franziska; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Bernhard, Lukas; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Speidel, Stefanie; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk (2024) 6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare. In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 10(2), 33-36. doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2024-1060
  • Kolb, Sven; Madden, Andrew; Kröger, Nicolai; Mehmeti, Fidan; Jurosch, Franziska; Bernhard, Lukas; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Dirk (2024) 6G in Medical Robotics: Development of Network Allocation Strategies for a Telerobotic Examination System. In: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. doi.org/10.1007/s11548-024-03260-6
  • Wagner, Lars; Jourdan, Sara; Mayer, Leon; Müller, Carolin; Bernhard, Lukas; Kolb, Sven; Harb, Farid; Jell, Alissa; Berlet, Maximilian; Feussner, Hubertus; Buxmann, Peter; Knoll, Alois; Wilhelm, Dirk (2024) Robotic scrub nurse to anticipate surgical instruments based on real-time laparoscopic video analysis. In Communications Medicine, 4(1), 156. doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00581-0

2023

  • Jurosch, Franziska; Kolb, Sven (2023) 6G Healthcare: Integrating New Network Approaches in Medical Robotics Applications. In Prototyping in 2023 - Working group 4. one6G white paper. one6g.org/resources/publications/
  • Wagner, Lars; Kolb, Sven; Leuchtenberger, Patrick; Bernhard, Lukas; Jell, Alissa; Wilhelm, Dirk (2023) Deep learning assisted intraoperative instrument cleaning station for robotic scrub nurse systems. In at - Automatisierungstechnik, 71(7), 572-579. doi.org/10.1515/auto-2023-0062
  • Wagner, Lars; Kolb, Sven; Looschen, Christian; Berhard, Lukas; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Berlet, Maximilian; Fottner, Johannes; Knoll, Alois; Wilhelm, Dirk (2023) Versatile end effector for laparoscopic robotic scrub nurse. In International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. doi.org/10.1007/s11548-023-02892-4

2022

  • Steinlehner, Florian; Weinschenk, Annika; Kolb, Sven; Laumann, Stefan; Volk, Wolfram (2022) Numerical Description of the Physical Properties of Stretch Web Connectors in Progressive Die Stamping. In: Inal, K., Levesque, J., Worswick, M., Butcher, C. (eds) NUMISHEET 2022. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06212-4_83 

Expert Lectures / Demos

2024

  • 6G Open Lab Day 2024: Telemedical Examination and Patient Monitoring in Shared 6G Network Testbed (Demo)
  • CARS 2024: 6G in Medical Robotics: Development of Network Allocation Strategies for a Telerobotic Examination System

2023

  • one6G Summit 2023: 6G Healthcare: Integrating New Network Approaches in Medical Robotics Applications (Demo)
  • CURAC 2023: 6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare
  • 6G-life Workshop on Machine Learning in 6G: 6G & AI in the Operating Room (Poster)