Surgical Gym: A high-performance GPU-based platform for reinforcement learning with surgical robots

S Schmidgall, A Krieger… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in robot-assisted surgery have resulted in progressively more precise,
efficient, and minimally invasive procedures, sparking a new era of robotic surgical …

Movement primitive diffusion: Learning gentle robotic manipulation of deformable objects

PM Scheikl, N Schreiber, C Haas… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Policy learning in robot-assisted surgery (RAS) lacks data efficient and versatile methods
that exhibit the desired motion quality for delicate surgical interventions. To this end, we …

Autonomous Blood Suction for Robot-Assisted Surgery: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Approach

Y Ou, A Soleymani, X Li… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent applications of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in surgical autonomy have shown
promising results in automating various surgical sub-tasks. While most of these studies …

Real-to-sim deformable object manipulation: Optimizing physics models with residual mappings for robotic surgery

X Liang, F Liu, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Lin… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate deformable object manipulation (DOM) is essential for achieving autonomy in
robotic surgery, where soft tissues are being displaced, stretched, and dissected. Many DOM …

Integrating human learning and reinforcement learning: A novel approach to agent training

YH Li, F Zhang, Q Hua, XH Zhou - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are known for improving sample efficiency
by employing prior experiences in experience replay memory. However, most existing off …

A Multiarm Robotic Platform for Scientific Exploration: Its Design, Digital Twins, and Validation

MM Marinho, JJ Quiroz-Omaña… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a large number of robotic platforms with two or more arms targeting surgical
applications. Despite that, very few groups have employed such platforms for scientific …

[PDF][PDF] Robot Learning Incorporating Human Interventions in the Real World for Autonomous Surgical Endoscopic Camera Control.

Y Ou, S Zargarzadeh, M Tavakoli - J. Medical Robotics Res., 2023 - researchgate.net
Recent studies in surgical robotics have focused on automating common surgical subtasks
such as grasping and manipulation using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). In this work …

Efficient Physically-based Simulation of Soft Bodies in Embodied Environment for Surgical Robot

Z Yang, Y Long, K Chen, W Wei, Q Dou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01181, 2024 - arxiv.org
Surgical robot simulation platform plays a crucial role in enhancing training efficiency and
advancing research on robot learning. Much effort have been made by scholars on …

SurgicAI: A Fine-grained Platform for Data Collection and Benchmarking in Surgical Policy Learning

J Wu, H Zhou, P Kazanzides, A Munawar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite advancements in robotic-assisted surgery, automating complex tasks like suturing
remain challenging due to the need for adaptability and precision. Learning-based …

From Decision to Action in Surgical Autonomy: Multi-Modal Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Blood Suction

S Zargarzadeh, M Mirzaei, Y Ou, M Tavakoli - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has impacted research in robotics and
automation. While progress has been made in integrating LLMs into general robotics tasks …