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| author | Wang, Jiayin Yao, Mingfeng Wei, Yanran Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Ayong Zhao, Weidong |
| author_facet | Wang, Jiayin Yao, Mingfeng Wei, Yanran Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Ayong Zhao, Weidong |
| contents | For Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) robots, accurate haptic interaction force feedback is essential for ensuring the safety of interacting with soft tissue. However, most existing MIS robotic systems cannot facilitate direct measurement of the interaction force with hardware sensors due to space limitations. This letter introduces an effective vision-based scheme that utilizes a One-Shot structured light projection with a designed pattern on soft tissue coupled with haptic information processing through a trained image-to-force neural network. The images captured from the endoscopic stereo camera are analyzed to reconstruct high-resolution 3D point clouds for soft tissue deformation. Based on this, a modified PointNet-based force estimation method is proposed, which excels in representing the complex mechanical properties of soft tissue. Numerical force interaction experiments are conducted on three silicon materials with different stiffness. The results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Image-to-Force Estimation for Soft Tissue Interaction in Robotic-Assisted Surgery Using Structured Light Wang, Jiayin Yao, Mingfeng Wei, Yanran Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Ayong Zhao, Weidong Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition For Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) robots, accurate haptic interaction force feedback is essential for ensuring the safety of interacting with soft tissue. However, most existing MIS robotic systems cannot facilitate direct measurement of the interaction force with hardware sensors due to space limitations. This letter introduces an effective vision-based scheme that utilizes a One-Shot structured light projection with a designed pattern on soft tissue coupled with haptic information processing through a trained image-to-force neural network. The images captured from the endoscopic stereo camera are analyzed to reconstruct high-resolution 3D point clouds for soft tissue deformation. Based on this, a modified PointNet-based force estimation method is proposed, which excels in representing the complex mechanical properties of soft tissue. Numerical force interaction experiments are conducted on three silicon materials with different stiffness. The results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. |
| title | Image-to-Force Estimation for Soft Tissue Interaction in Robotic-Assisted Surgery Using Structured Light |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08593 |