An application of artificial intelligence to medical robotics

Authors:
Elena Alessandri;Alessandro Gasparetto;Rafael Valencia Garcia;Rodrigo Martinez Béjar
Affiliations:
DIEGM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy 33100;DIEGM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy 33100;Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain 30100;Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain 30100
Venue:
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Medical Robotics is described. Namely, a specific AI technique is employed to generate a sequence of operations understandable by the control system of a robot which is to perform a semi-automatic surgical task. According to this technique, a planner is implemented to translate the "natural" language of the surgeon into the robotic sequence that should be executed by the robot. A robotic simulator has been implemented in order to test the planned sequence in a virtual environment. The planned sequence is then to be input to the medical robotic system, which will execute the surgical operation. The work described in this paper features a high level of originality, since no similar applications of AI to medical robotics could be found in the scientific literature.