From teleoperation to autonomous robot-assisted microsurgery: A survey

D Zhang, W Si, W Fan, Y Guan, C Yang - Machine Intelligence Research, 2022 - Springer
Robot-assisted microsurgery (RAMS) has many benefits compared to traditional
microsurgery. Microsurgical platforms with advanced control strategies, high-quality micro …

Microsurgery robots: applications, design, and development

T Wang, H Li, T Pu, L Yang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microsurgical techniques have been widely utilized in various surgical specialties, such as
ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology, which require intricate and precise …

LapGym-an open source framework for reinforcement learning in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery

PM Scheikl, BĂĄ Gyenes, R Younis, C Haas… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have increased the promise of introducing
cognitive assistance and automation to robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) …

Guided reinforcement learning with efficient exploration for task automation of surgical robot

T Huang, K Chen, B Li, YH Liu… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task automation of surgical robot has the potentials to improve surgical efficiency. Recent
reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches provide scalable solutions to surgical …

Bi-touch: Bimanual tactile manipulation with sim-to-real deep reinforcement learning

Y Lin, A Church, M Yang, H Li, J Lloyd… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bimanual manipulation with tactile feedback will be key to human-level robot dexterity.
However, this topic is less explored than single-arm settings, partly due to the availability of …

Learning to localize, grasp, and hand over unmodified surgical needles

A Wilcox, J Kerr, B Thananjeyan… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic Surgical Assistants (RSAs) are commonly used to perform minimally invasive
surgeries by expert surgeons. However, long procedures filled with tedious and repetitive …

Sim-to-real surgical robot learning and autonomous planning for internal tissue points manipulation using reinforcement learning

Y Ou, M Tavakoli - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Indirect simultaneous positioning (ISP), where internal tissue points are placed at desired
locations indirectly through the manipulation of boundary points, is a type of subtask …

Image-based pose estimation and shape reconstruction for robot manipulators and soft, continuum robots via differentiable rendering

J Lu, F Liu, C Girerd, MC Yip - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State estimation from measured data is crucial for robotic applications as autonomous
systems rely on sensors to capture the motion and localize in the 3D world. Among sensors …

Intermittent visual servoing: Efficiently learning policies robust to instrument changes for high-precision surgical manipulation

S Paradis, M Hwang, B Thananjeyan… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assisting surgeons with automation of surgical subtasks is challenging due to backlash,
hysteresis, and variable tensioning in cable-driven robots. These issues are exacerbated as …

Automatic parameter optimization using genetic algorithm in deep reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation tasks

A Sehgal, N Ward, H La, S Louis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03656, 2022 - arxiv.org
Learning agents can make use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to decide their actions by
using a reward function. However, the learning process is greatly influenced by the elect of …