反射型ARディスプレイによる医療ロボットの仮想現実位置合わせ手法
Reflective-AR Display: An Interaction Methodology for Virtual-Real Alignment in Medical Robotics
頭部装着型ARで複数視点の拡張情報を同時提示する反射型ARディスプレイを提案し、手術ロボットアームと仮想計画の位置合わせ精度を向上させた。
著者: Javad Fotouhi, Tianyu Song, Arian Mehrfard, Giacomo Taylor, Qiaochu Wang, Fengfang Xian, Alejandro Martin-Gomez, Bernhard Fuerst, Mehran Armand, Mathias Unberath, Nassir Navab
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
原文アブストラクト
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery has shown to improve patient outcomes, as well as reduce complications and recovery time for several clinical applications. While increasingly configurable robotic arms can maximize reach and avoid collisions in cluttered environments, positioning them appropriately during surgery is complicated because safety regulations prevent automatic driving. We propose a head-mounted display (HMD) based augmented reality (AR) system designed to guide optimal surgical arm set up. The staff equipped with HMD aligns the robot with its planned virtual counterpart. In this user-centric setting, the main challenge is the perspective ambiguities hindering such collaborative robotic solution. To overcome this challenge, we introduce a novel registration concept for intuitive alignment of AR content to its physical counterpart by providing a multi-view AR experience via reflective-AR displays that simultaneously show the augmentations from multiple viewpoints. Using this system, users can visualize different perspectives while actively adjusting the pose to determine the registration transformation that most closely superimposes the virtual onto the real. The experimental results demonstrate improvement in the interactive alignment of a virtual and real robot when using a reflective-AR display. We also present measurements from configuring a robotic manipulator in a simulated trocar placement surgery using the AR guidance methodology.
