Intuitive operability evaluation of robotic surgery using brain activity measurement to identify hand-eye coordination

Many devices that offer lifestyle support, especially movement support, for the elderly have been recently developed. We have developed a new personal mobility device, Tread-Walk (TW), which is a walking support system for the elderly. Here we proposed a new control of a treadmill that enables users to walk with the same feeling as in normal level-ground walking. In this paper, we evaluated our proposed control method using a brain activity measurement, namely near-infrared spectroscopy. In particular, we quantitatively evaluated the operability, which has only been qualitatively evaluated previously. Results showed a notable tendency that brain activity depends on the accuracy of our proposed treadmill control. Then a possibility that a walking state could be evaluated from a brain activity was suggested. Our study validates the active velocity control of a treadmill according to brain activity measurement.

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“…In that study, we clarified the parameters for the design of a surgical robot with intuitive operability using brain activity data [13].…”

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Brain activity measurement based evaluation of active control of a treadmill

Yokoo

Nakashima

Miura

et al. 2012

The 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, and the 13th International Symposium on Advanced In

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Evaluation of Virtual Shadow’s Direction in Laparoscopic Surgery

Miura

Seki

Koreeda

et al. 2020

2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)

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Intuitive operability evaluation of surgical robot using brain activity measurement to determine immersive reality

Miura

Kobayashi

Kawamura

et al. 2012

2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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Surgical robots have improved considerably in recent years, but intuitive operability, which represents user inter-operability, has not been quantitatively evaluated. Therefore, for design of a robot with intuitive operability, we propose a method to measure brain activity to determine intuitive operability. The objective of this paper is to determine the master configuration against the monitor that allows users to perceive the manipulator as part of their own body. We assume that the master configuration produces an immersive reality experience for the user of putting his own arm into the monitor. In our experiments, as subjects controlled the hand controller to position the tip of the virtual slave manipulator on a target in a surgical simulator, we measured brain activity through brain-imaging devices. We performed our experiments for a variety of master manipulator configurations with the monitor position fixed. For all test subjects, we found that brain activity was stimulated significantly when the master manipulator was located behind the monitor. We conclude that this master configuration produces immersive reality through the body image, which is related to visual and somatic sense feedback.

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Intuitive operability evaluation of robotic surgery using brain activity measurement to identify hand-eye coordination

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Brain activity measurement based evaluation of active control of a treadmill

Brain activity measurement based evaluation of active control of a treadmill

Evaluation of Virtual Shadow’s Direction in Laparoscopic Surgery

Intuitive operability evaluation of surgical robot using brain activity measurement to determine immersive reality

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