During Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), the quality and operations of the endoscopic camera have great importance. Surgeons tend to rely high resolution and stereo endoscopes preferably. Over the past 15 years, the da Vinci Surgical System became the dominant master-slave teleoperational surgical robot globally, and there are over 500 thousand surgeries performed with it annually. The da Vinci Classic at the IROB center has the original, low resolution vision system, thus it requires a major upgrade.
Detailed tasks:
- Learning the camera and vision systems of the da Vinci robot;
- Designing a 3D stereocamera and vision system;
- Implementing and integrating the vision system with the robot and the DVRK research platform, implementation of calibration methods;
- Testing and analyzing the results.
Over the course of the project, the student will get involved with the various research project of the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics.