手術把持・牽引のための教師ありMixture-of-Experts
Supervised Mixture-of-Experts for Surgical Grasping and Retraction
ステレオ内視鏡画像と150件未満のデモのみで、位相構造を持つ手術操作を学習する教師ありMoEアーキテクチャを提案し、腸管把持・牽引タスクで汎用VLAを上回る性能と分布外頑健性を示した。
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1. どんなもの？
2. 先行研究と比べてどこがすごい？
3. 技術・手法の肝は？
4. どうやって有効だと検証した？
5. 議論はある？
6. 次に読むべき論文は？
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著者: Lorenzo Mazza, Ariel Rodriguez, Rayan Younis, Martin Lelis, Ortrun Hellig, Chenpan Li, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Martin Wagner, Stefanie Speidel
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Imitation learning has achieved remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet its application to surgical robotics remains challenging due to data scarcity, constrained workspaces, and the need for an exceptional level of safety and predictability. We present a supervised Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture designed for phase-structured surgical manipulation tasks, which can be added on top of any autonomous policy. Unlike prior surgical robot learning approaches that rely on multi-camera setups or thousands of demonstrations, we show that a lightweight action decoder policy like Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) can learn complex, long-horizon manipulation from less than 150 demonstrations using solely stereo endoscopic images, when equipped with our architecture. We evaluate our approach on the collaborative surgical task of bowel grasping and retraction, where a robot assistant interprets visual cues from a human surgeon, executes targeted grasping on deformable tissue, and performs sustained retraction. Our results show that generalist Vision Language Action models fail to acquire the task entirely, even under standard in-distribution conditions. Furthermore, while standard ACT achieves moderate success in-distribution, adopting a supervised MoE architecture significantly boosts its performance, yielding higher success rates in-distribution and demonstrating superior robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios, including novel grasp locations, reduced illumination, and partial occlusions. Notably, it generalizes to unseen testing viewpoints and also transfers zero-shot to ex vivo porcine tissue without additional training, offering a promising pathway toward in vivo deployment. To support this statement, we present qualitative preliminary results of policy roll-outs during in vivo porcine surgery.
