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Design and validation of looping assistance methods in robotic-assisted neonatal surgical suturing in a chest model
Murilo Marques Marinho1, Risa Oikawa2, Kentaro Hayashi3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Background:
Neonate patients have a reduced thoracic cavity, making thoracoscopic procedures even more challenging than their adult counterparts.
Methods:
We evaluated five control strategies for robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgical looping in simulations and experiments with a physical robotic system in a neonate surgical phantom. The strategies are composed of state-of-the-art constrained optimization and a novel looping force feedback term.
Results:
All control strategies allowed users to successfully perform looping. A user study in simulation showed that the proposed strategy was superior in terms of Physical demand and task duration . The cumulative sum analysis of inexperienced users shows that the proposed looping force feedback can speed up the learning. Results with surgeons did not show a significant difference among control strategies.
Conclusions:
Assistive strategies in looping show promise and further work is needed to extend these benefits to other subtasks in robot-aided surgical suturing.
