Three-dimensional modeling of physiological tremor for hand-held surgical robotic instruments

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:3708-3711. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591533.

Abstract

Hand-held robotic instruments are developed to compensate physiological tremor in real-time while augmenting the required precision and dexterity into normal microsurgical work-flow. The hardware (sensors and actuators) and software (causal linear filters) employed for tremor identification and filtering introduces time-varying unknown phase-delay that adversely affects the device performance. The current techniques that focus on three-dimensions (3D) tip position control involves modeling and canceling the tremor in 3-axes (x, y, and z axes) separately. Our analysis with the tremor data recorded from surgeons and novice subjects show that there exists significant correlation in tremor motion across the dimensions. Motivated by this, a new multi-dimensional modeling approach based on extreme learning machines (ELM) is proposed in this paper to correct the phase delay and to accurately model tremulous motion in three dimensions simultaneously. A study is conducted with tremor data recorded from the microsurgeons to analyze the suitability of proposed approach.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
  • Models, Biological
  • Motion
  • Robotic Surgical Procedures / instrumentation*
  • Software
  • Surgical Instruments
  • Tremor / physiopathology*