Technical and functional validation of a teleoperated multirobots platform for minimally invasive surgery

Nowadays Robotic assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries (R-MIS) are the elective procedures for treating highly accurate and scarcely invasive pathologies, thanks to their ability to empower surgeons’ dexterity and skills. The research on new Multi-Robots Surgery (MRS) platform is cardinal to the dev...

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Autores: Leporini, Alice, Oleari, Elettra, Landolfo, Carmela, Sanna, Alberto, Larcher, Alessandro, Gandaglia, Giorgio, Fossati, Nicola, Muttin, Fabio, Capitanio, Umberto, Montorsi, Francesco, Sayols Baixeras, Narcís|||0000-0003-2170-4923, Hernansanz Prats, Alberto|||0000-0002-7969-5401, Casals Gelpí, Alicia|||0000-0003-4706-5533
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/346422
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/346422
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2020.2990286
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Robotics in medicine
Surgical robotics
Multi-Robots surgery
RMIS
Validation protocol
Tele-operated surgical robotic system
robotic end effector task metrics
Functional evaluation
Surgical-related tasks
Robòtica en medicina
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria biomèdica::Robòtica mèdica
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Sumario:Nowadays Robotic assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries (R-MIS) are the elective procedures for treating highly accurate and scarcely invasive pathologies, thanks to their ability to empower surgeons’ dexterity and skills. The research on new Multi-Robots Surgery (MRS) platform is cardinal to the development of a new SARAS surgical robotic platform, which aims at carrying out autonomously the assistants tasks during RMIS procedures. In this work, we will present the SARAS MRS platform validation protocol, framed in order to assess: (i) its technical performances in purely dexterity exercises, and (ii) its functional performances. The results obtained show a prototype able to put the users in the condition of accomplishing the tasks requested (both dexterity- and surgical-related), even with reasonably lower performances respect to the industrial standard. The main aspects on which further improvements are needed result to be the stability of the end effectors, the depth perception and the vision systems, to be enriched with dedicated virtual fixtures. The SARAS’ aim is to reduce the main surgeon’s workload through the automation of assistive tasks which would benefit both surgeons and patients by facilitating the surgery and reducing the operation time.