在手术机器人工具中集成六轴力传感器,实现末端受力精准测量。
Shaft-integrated Force Sensing with Transformer-based Dynamics Compensation for Telesurgery

- 用Transformer融合传感器与机器人状态数据,补偿内部缆线力干扰。
- 误差低于6%,在未见工况下泛化能力优于仅用近端数据的方法。
- 无需特殊设备即可复现,适合力反馈、技能评估等研究场景。
机器人辅助微创手术(RAMIS)提升了外科医生的操作能力,新一代平台通过触觉反馈进一步优化性能。力信息还可用于评估手术表现、触觉定位及手术自主性。这推动了将力传感集成到RAMIS工具中的需求。本文提出一种方法,将商用六轴力传感器集成至标准缆控手术器械的远端,实现末端执行器受力测量,同时保持原机械功能。设计强调可复现性和研究可用性,无需专用制造工具。采用基于Transformer的神经网络,融合传感器读数与机器人状态信息,以估计末端施加的力,补偿由驱动引起的内部缆线力。所提方法实现归一化误差低于6%,且在未见条件下泛化性能优于仅使用近端数据的纯数据驱动方法。高内部缆线力导致传感器饱和,降低轴向力可观测性,可能影响工具主轴方向性能及高负载下的表现。当前性能水平下,系统集成度与性能的平衡,使其适用于触觉反馈、技能评估和力感知自主性等前沿研究。视频与代码见 https://enhanced-telerobotics.github.io/shaft_force_sensing/。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) enhances surgeon dexterity, with newer platforms leveraging haptic feedback to further improve performance. Such force information has broader potential to inform performance assessment, tactile localization, and surgical autonomy. This motivates the need for accessible approaches to integrating force sensing into RAMIS tools. This work presents a method for integrating a six-axis commercial force sensor into the distal end of a standard cable-driven surgical instrument, enabling end-effector force measurement while preserving the original mechanical functionality of the device. The proposed design emphasizes reproducibility and accessibility for research applications, requiring no specialized manufacturing tools. A transformer neural network integrates force sensor measurements with robot state information to aid estimation of applied forces at the end-effector, compensating for internal cable forces arising from actuation. Our proposed approach achieved normalized errors below 6%, and generalized to unseen conditions better than purely proximal data-driven sensing approaches. High internal cable forces caused sensor saturation and reduced axial force observability, which can degrade performance along the tool's major axis and under higher load conditions. Given current levels of performance, the balance of system integrability and performance enables applications and research into timely topics of haptic feedback, skill assessment, and force-informed autonomy in RAMIS. Videos and code are available at https://enhanced-telerobotics.github.io/shaft_force_sensing/.
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