Publications (6)
Intermittent Visual Servoing: Efficiently Learning Policies Robust to Instrument Changes for High-precision Surgical Manipulation
Samuel Paradis, Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan +6
Automation of surgical tasks using cable-driven robots is challenging due to backlash, hysteresis, and cable tension, and these issues are exacerbated as surgical instruments must…
Efficiently Calibrating Cable-Driven Surgical Robots with RGBD Fiducial Sensing and Recurrent Neural Networks
Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan, Samuel Paradis +5
Automation of surgical subtasks using cable-driven robotic surgical assistants (RSAs) such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) is challenging due to imprecision in…
DESK: A Robotic Activity Dataset for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots
Naveen Madapana, Md Masudur Rahman, Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo +10
Datasets are an essential component for training effective machine learning models. In particular, surgical robotic datasets have been key to many advances in semi-autonomous surge…
Automating Surgical Peg Transfer: Calibration with Deep Learning Can Exceed Speed, Accuracy, and Consistency of Humans
Minho Hwang, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Brijen Thananjeyan +5
Peg transfer is a well-known surgical training task in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS). While human sur-geons teleoperate robots such as the da Vinci to perform this…
Applying Depth-Sensing to Automated Surgical Manipulation with a da Vinci Robot
Minho Hwang, Daniel Seita, Brijen Thananjeyan +5
Recent advances in depth-sensing have significantly increased accuracy, resolution, and frame rate, as shown in the 1920x1200 resolution and 13 frames per second Zivid RGBD camera.…
Automating Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot
Karthik Dharmarajan, Will Panitch, Muyan Jiang +7
Vascular shunt insertion is a fundamental surgical procedure used to temporarily restore blood flow to tissues. It is often performed in the field after major trauma. We formulate…