Technical and Functional Validation of a Teleoperated Multirobots Platform for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Alice Leporini (Lead / Corresponding author), Elettra Oleari, Carmela Landolfo, Alberto Sanna, Alessandro Larcher, Giorgio Gandaglia, Nicola Fossati, Fabio Muttin, Umberto Capitanio, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia, Marco Minelli, Federica Ferraguti, Cristian Secchi, Saverio Farsoni, Alessio Sozzi, Marcello Bonfe, Narcis Sayols, Albert Hernansanz, Alicia CasalsSabine Hertle, Fabio Cuzzolin, Andrew Dennison, Andreas Melzer, Gernot Kronreif, Salvatore Siracusano, Fabio Falezza, Francesco Setti, Riccardo Muradore

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    14 Citations (Scopus)
    103 Downloads (Pure)

    Abstract

    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. In the international research panorama of new prototypes for surgical tele-operated systems, a new master-slave robotic platform has been developed within the European funded project Smart Autonomous Robotic Assistant Surgeon (SARAS). The SARAS Multi-Robots Surgery (MRS) system is conceived to be tele-operated by an assistant surgeon during R-MIS. 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, i.e. deriving from the motion-related parameters of the end effectors, to be compared with those of a reference da Vinci® system, and (ii) its functional performances, i.e. the level of accomplishment of surgical related tasks. 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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)148-156
    Number of pages9
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
    Volume2
    Issue number2
    Early online date24 Apr 2020
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2020

    Keywords

    • Validation protocol
    • tele-operated surgical robotic system
    • robotic end effector task metrics
    • funcitonal evaluation
    • surgical-related tasks

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Technical and Functional Validation of a Teleoperated Multirobots Platform for Minimally Invasive Surgery'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this