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Encouraging and Detecting Preferential Incipient Slip for Use in Slip Prevention in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Sensors, ISSN: 1424-8220, Vol: 22, Issue: 20
2022
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Studies from University of Leeds in the Area of Robotics Described (Encouraging and Detecting Preferential Incipient Slip for Use in Slip Prevention in Robot-Assisted Surgery)

2022 NOV 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Medical Devices Daily -- New study results on robotics have been published.

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Robotic surgical platforms have helped to improve minimally invasive surgery; however, limitations in their force feedback and force control can result in undesirable tissue trauma or tissue slip events. In this paper, we investigate a sensing method for the early detection of slip events when grasping soft tissues, which would allow surgical robots to take mitigating action to prevent tissue slip and maintain stable grasp control while minimising the applied gripping force, reducing the probability of trauma. The developed sensing concept utilises a curved grasper face to create areas of high and low normal, and thus frictional, force. In the areas of low normal force, there is a higher probability that the grasper face will slip against the tissue. If the grasper face is separated into a series of independent movable islands, then by tracking their displacement it will be possible to identify when the areas of low normal force first start to slip while the remainder of the tissue is still held securely. The system was evaluated through the simulated grasping and retraction of tissue under conditions representative of surgical practice using silicone tissue simulants and porcine liver samples. It was able to successfully detect slip before gross slip occurred with a 100% and 77% success rate for the tissue simulant and porcine liver samples, respectively. This research demonstrates the efficacy of this sensing method and the associated sensor system for detecting the occurrence of tissue slip events during surgical grasping and retraction.

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Waters, Ian; Jones, Dominic; Alazmani, Ali; Culmer, Peter

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Chemistry; Computer Science; Physics and Astronomy; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Engineering

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