Deformable object manipulation in caregiving scenarios: A review

L Wang, J Zhu - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the robotic manipulation of deformable objects in caregiving scenarios.
Deformable objects like clothing, food, and medical supplies are ubiquitous in care tasks, yet …

LapGym-an open source framework for reinforcement learning in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery

PM Scheikl, BĂĄ Gyenes, R Younis, C Haas… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have increased the promise of introducing
cognitive assistance and automation to robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) …

Human-in-the-loop embodied intelligence with interactive simulation environment for surgical robot learning

Y Long, W Wei, T Huang, Y Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robot automation has attracted increasing research interest over the past decade,
expecting its potential to benefit surgeons, nurses and patients. Recently, the learning …

Surgical Gym: A high-performance GPU-based platform for reinforcement learning with surgical robots

S Schmidgall, A Krieger… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in robot-assisted surgery have resulted in progressively more precise,
efficient, and minimally invasive procedures, sparking a new era of robotic surgical …

Autonomous blood suction for robot-assisted surgery: A sim-to-real reinforcement learning approach

Y Ou, A Soleymani, X Li… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent applications of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in surgical autonomy have shown
promising results in automating various surgical sub-tasks. While most of these studies …

Sculptbot: Pre-trained models for 3d deformable object manipulation

A Bartsch, C Avra, AB Farimani - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deformable object manipulation presents a unique set of challenges in robotic manipulation
by exhibiting high degrees of freedom and severe self-occlusion. Choosing state …

Movement primitive diffusion: Learning gentle robotic manipulation of deformable objects

PM Scheikl, N Schreiber, C Haas… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Policy learning in robot-assisted surgery (RAS) lacks data efficient and versatile methods
that exhibit the desired motion quality for delicate surgical interventions. To this end, we …

Real-to-sim deformable object manipulation: Optimizing physics models with residual map**s for robotic surgery

X Liang, F Liu, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Lin… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate deformable object manipulation (DOM) is essential for achieving autonomy in
robotic surgery, where soft tissues are being displaced, stretched, and dissected. Many DOM …

Surgical Task Automation Using Actor-Critic Frameworks and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning

J Liu, A Andres, Y Jiang, X Luo, W Shu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Surgical robot task automation has recently attracted great attention due to its potential to
benefit both surgeons and patients. Reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches have …

Saramis: Simulation assets for robotic assisted and minimally invasive surgery

N Montaña-Brown, SU Saeed… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Minimally-invasive surgery (MIS) and robot-assisted minimally invasive (RAMIS) surgery
offer well-documented benefits to patients such as reduced post-operative pain and shorter …