Autonomous task planning and situation awareness in robotic surgery

Michele Ginesi,Daniele Meli,Andrea Roberti,Nicola Sansonetto,Paolo Fiorini,Michele Ginesi,Daniele Meli,Andrea Roberti,Nicola Sansonetto,Paolo Fiorini

The use of robots in minimally invasive surgery has improved the quality of standard surgical procedures. So far, only the automation of simple surgical actions has been investigated by researchers, while the execution of structured tasks requiring reasoning on the environment and the choice among multiple actions is still managed by human surgeons. In this paper, we propose a framework to impleme...