用强化学习让手术机器人自主完成冲水吸液,效果接近人工操作。
Learning Autonomous Surgical Irrigation and Suction with the da Vinci Research Kit Using Reinforcement Learning
- 基于视觉的强化学习模型,分步训练冲水与吸液智能体。
- 实测冲水后残留污染物平均2.21克,优于人工操作的1.90克。
- 适合想自动化微创手术中液体处理流程的研究者与工程师。
冲洗-吸引是微创手术中常见的清洁步骤:先注入生理盐水冲洗并稀释污染物,再将其吸出。尽管强化学习在自动化手术子任务方面取得进展,但针对液体操作的自动化研究仍较少。本文探索了该流程的全流程自动化,训练两个基于视觉的强化学习智能体分别完成冲水和吸液任务。为此,我们构建了一个支持仿真学习环境的平台,并开发了具备逼真流体渲染能力的冲水与吸液模拟环境。通过领域随机化(DR)和精心设计的奖励函数,在模拟环境中训练智能体并迁移到真实世界。个体评估显示,初始约5克污染物时,冲水智能体最终残留平均2.21克(人工操作为1.90克);吸液智能体在初始液量超过20克和30克的两组试验中,分别剩余2.64克和2.24克液体。全自主冲洗-吸液实验将污染物从约5克降至平均2.42克,但因未完全吸净液体,总残留量较高(4.40克)。项目详情见 https://tbs-ualberta.github.io/CRESSim/。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The irrigation-suction process is a common procedure to rinse and clean up the surgical field in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). In this process, surgeons first irrigate liquid, typically saline, into the surgical scene for rinsing and diluting the contaminant, and then suction the liquid out of the surgical field. While recent advances have shown promising results in the application of reinforcement learning (RL) for automating surgical subtasks, fewer studies have explored the automation of fluid-related tasks. In this work, we explore the automation of both steps in the irrigation-suction procedure and train two vision-based RL agents to complete irrigation and suction autonomously. To achieve this, a platform is developed for creating simulated surgical robot learning environments and for training agents, and two simulated learning environments are built for irrigation and suction with visually plausible fluid rendering capabilities. With techniques such as domain randomization (DR) and carefully designed reward functions, two agents are trained in the simulator and transferred to the real world. Individual evaluations of both agents show satisfactory real-world results. With an initial amount of around 5 grams of contaminants, the irrigation agent ultimately achieved an average of 2.21 grams remaining after a manual suction. As a comparison, fully manual operation by a human results in 1.90 grams remaining. The suction agent achieved 2.64 and 2.24 grams of liquid remaining across two trial groups with more than 20 and 30 grams of initial liquid in the container. Fully autonomous irrigation-suction trials reduce the contaminant in the container from around 5 grams to an average of 2.42 grams, although yielding a higher total weight remaining (4.40) due to residual liquid not suctioned. Further information about the project is available at https://tbs-ualberta.github.io/CRESSim/.
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