Muhammad Rehan

Thesis Title
Robotic Capsule for Sampling Gut Microbiota: Design, Development and Evaluation

Supervisors
Associate Professor Ibrahim Al-Bahadly
Associate Professor Ebu Avci
Associate Professor David Thomas

Journal

Rehan, M., Al‐Bahadly, I., Thomas, D. G., & Avci, E. (2022). Development of Robotic Capsule for In vivo Sampling of Gut Microbiota. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, (submitted).

Rehan, M., Al‐Bahadly, I., Thomas, D. G., & Avci, E. (2021). Towards Gut Microbiota Sampling Using an Untethered Sampling Device. IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3111086. 

Rehan, M., Al-Bahadly, I., Thomas, D. G., & Avci, E. (2021). Measurement of Peristaltic Forces Exerted by Living Intestine on Robotic Capsule. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3078139.

Rehan, M., Al‐Bahadly, I., Thomas, D. G., & Avci, E. (2020). Capsule robot for gut microbiota sampling using shape memory alloy spring. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 16(5), 1-14.

Conference

Yeo A. G., Rehan, M., & Avci, E. (2021). Mechanical Characterisation of Robotic Capsule Anchoring Mechanism for Gastrointestinal Tract. In 2021 7th International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics (ICAM 2021), Aichi, Japan.

Rehan, M., Al-Bahadly, I., Thomas, D. G., & Avci, E. (2021). Stress Analysis on a Capsule Robot Due to the Peristaltic Movement of the Intestine. In 2020 COMSOL conference, North America. 

Newsletter (Magazine)

Rehan, M., (2021). Massey University research update: Technology that transforms. VetScript, 33 (11), pp. 20-22.

Research Achievements (Awards)

April 2022, Selected to give a talk on my research (robotic capsule) at University of the Third Age (U3A), Christchurch Central chapter

March 2022, Researcher profile featured on Massey University’s new website

Dec 2021, Work on robotic capsule featured on “Education NZ website”. [Press/Media highlight]

Nov 2021, Obtained 10k funding from Palmerston North Medical Research Foundation.

Nov 2021, Work on robotic capsule featured in “Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan” broadcasted at Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on 9 Nov. 2021. [Press/Media highlight]

Nov 2021: Finalist, Falling Walls Lab – Emerging Talent 2021 : 75 national winners from each country had participate

Oct 2021: Winner, 180 Seconds of Research Studies organized by UTP Malaysia. Atotalof70 presenters from UK, France, New Zealand, Italy, Poland, Malaysia, Pakistan & India participated in this competition.

Sept 2021: Winner and People’s choice award, Royal Society’s Falling Walls Lab New Zealand 2021

Sept 2021: Winner, Pitch.ME competition organised by Massey ecentre

July 2021, Finalist for the Best Paper Award (top 6 out of 56 papers), 7th International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics (ICAM 2021), Aichi, Japan.

June 2021: Finalist (top 11 out of 90 applicants) for Grand Ideas competition organised by Massey ecentre

Dec 2020: Massey University research update: Technology that transforms, VetScript magazine, December 2020 [Press/Media highlight]

Oct. 2020: Semi-finalist Asia-Pacific 3MT competition (represented Massey University). A total of 54 competitors participated from Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. 

Sept. 2020: Winner and People’s choice award, Massey University 3MT competition 2020

August 2019: Runner-up best presentation award in the IEEE Postgraduate Symposium. The Symposium was attended by 33 Postgraduate presenters from Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington.