Concepts and trends in autonomy for robot-assisted surgery

P Fiorini, KY Goldberg, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

Asap: A semi-autonomous precise system for telesurgery during communication delays

G Gonzalez, M Balakuntala, M Agarwal… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In remote, rural, and disadvantaged areas, telesurgery can be severely hindered by
limitations of communication infrastructure. In conventional telesurgery, delays as small as …

Towards Autonomous Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Hybrid Framework Combining Task-Motion Planning and Dynamic Behavior Trees

K Fozilov, J Colan, K Sekiyama, Y Hasegawa - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing need for high levels of autonomy in Autonomous Robotic Surgery Systems
(ARSS) calls for innovative approaches to reduce surgeons' cognitive load, optimize hospital …

COMPASS: a formal framework and aggregate dataset for generalized surgical procedure modeling

K Hutchinson, I Reyes, Z Li, H Alemzadeh - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose We propose a formal framework for the modeling and segmentation of minimally
invasive surgical tasks using a unified set of motion primitives (MPs) to enable more …

Laparoscopic Image-Based Critical Action Recognition and Anticipation With Explainable Features

J Zhang, S Zhou, Y Wang, S Shi, C Wan… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical workflow analysis integrates perception, comprehension, and prediction of the
surgical workflow, which helps real-time surgical support systems provide proper guidance …

Semantic Monocular Surgical SLAM: Intra-Operative 3D Reconstruction and Pre-Operative Registration in Dynamic Environments

A Roberti, D Meli, G De Rossi… - 2023 21st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the feasibility of autonomy in the field of Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive
Surgery (RAMIS) has been investigated. One of the most important requirements for such a …

Linear MPC-based Motion Planning for Autonomous Surgery

M Minelli, A Sozzi, G De Rossi… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the context of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery (R-MIS), we propose a novel linear
model predictive controller formulation for the coordination of multiple autonomous robotic …

Synthesis and Monitoring of Complex Tasks for Heterogeneous Robots in an Industry 4.0 Scenario

F Trotti, E Ghignoni, R Muradore, A Farinelli - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Synthesis and tasks execution is a well known problem pertaining to different fields. With the
advent of Industry 4.0, the need to schedule and execute very complex tasks that involve …