TY - GEN
T1 - Adaptive control of sclera force and insertion depth for safe robot-assisted retinal surgery
AU - Ebrahimi, Ali
AU - Patel, Niravkumar
AU - He, Changyan
AU - Gehlbach, Peter
AU - Kobilarov, Marin
AU - Iordachita, Iulian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - One of the significant challenges of moving from manual to robot-assisted retinal surgery is the loss of perception of forces applied to the sclera (sclera forces) by the surgical tools. This damping of force feedback is primarily due to the stiffness and inertia of the robot. The diminished perception of tool-to-eye interactions might put the eye tissue at high risk of injury due to excessive sclera forces or extreme insertion of the tool into the eye. In the present study therefore a 1-dimensional adaptive control method is customized for 3-dimensional control of sclera force components and tool insertion depth and then implemented on the velocity-controlled Johns Hopkins Steady-Hand Eye Robot. The control method enables the robot to perform autonomous motions to make the sclera force and/or insertion depth of the tool tip to follow pre-defined desired and safe trajectories when they exceed safe bounds. A robotic light pipe holding application in retinal surgery is also investigated using the adaptive control method. The implementation results indicate that the adaptive control is able to achieve the imposed safety margins and prevent sclera forces and insertion depth from exceeding safe boundaries.
AB - One of the significant challenges of moving from manual to robot-assisted retinal surgery is the loss of perception of forces applied to the sclera (sclera forces) by the surgical tools. This damping of force feedback is primarily due to the stiffness and inertia of the robot. The diminished perception of tool-to-eye interactions might put the eye tissue at high risk of injury due to excessive sclera forces or extreme insertion of the tool into the eye. In the present study therefore a 1-dimensional adaptive control method is customized for 3-dimensional control of sclera force components and tool insertion depth and then implemented on the velocity-controlled Johns Hopkins Steady-Hand Eye Robot. The control method enables the robot to perform autonomous motions to make the sclera force and/or insertion depth of the tool tip to follow pre-defined desired and safe trajectories when they exceed safe bounds. A robotic light pipe holding application in retinal surgery is also investigated using the adaptive control method. The implementation results indicate that the adaptive control is able to achieve the imposed safety margins and prevent sclera forces and insertion depth from exceeding safe boundaries.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793658
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793658
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 32368362
AN - SCOPUS:85071439240
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 9073
EP - 9079
BT - 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019
Y2 - 20 May 2019 through 24 May 2019
ER -