Surgeon-robot interface development framework

Abstract

The progress of robotic medicine leads to the emergence of an increasing number of highly specialized automated systems based on specialized software. In any such system, there is the task of translating the surgeon's requests into the process of automated procedure execution. The hardware and software system that provides the translation is the interface between the surgeon and the robot. This paper proposes a generalized framework architecture for the development of such software - the surgeon-robot interface. Existing implementations of such an interface are considered, solutions for the internal structure design of the framework are proposed. Experiments were performed using a prototype of the proposed framework. Such a development framework will allow one to effectively implement the surgeon-robot interfaces at all stages of the robotization of medical procedures, from prototype to final use in the operating room.

Keywords: Medical robotics; Robotic systems; Software architecture; Software framework.