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An application of artificial intelligence to medical robotics

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In this paper an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Medical Robotics is described. Namely, a specific AI technique is employed to generate a sequence of operations understandable by the control system of a robot which is to perform a semi-automatic surgical task. According to this technique, a planner is implemented to translate the “natural” language of the surgeon into the robotic sequence that should be executed by the robot. A robotic simulator has been implemented in order to test the planned sequence in a virtual environment. The planned sequence is then to be input to the medical robotic system, which will execute the surgical operation. The work described in this paper features a high level of originality, since no similar applications of AI to medical robotics could be found in the scientific literature.

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  1. DIEGM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze 208, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Elena Alessandri & Alessandro Gasparetto

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia Garcia & Rodrigo Martinez Béjar

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Alessandri, E., Gasparetto, A., Valencia Garcia, R. et al. An application of artificial intelligence to medical robotics. J Intell Robot Syst 41, 225–243 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-005-3509-x

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