ASSIST involves the development of a surgically controlled, autonomous manipulator for assisting in surgical operations, which takes over the clamping and presentation of tissue and organs. The project combines highly innovative approaches to machine intelligence and navigation with surgical principles and occupies a niche at the interface between scientific innovation and ethically and legally acceptable autonomy. In order to achieve the goal of autonomous manipulation, we integrate various data from the manipulator arm (angular positions, forces), optical sensors (object and process recognition), device data from the surgical environment and medical-physiological knowledge in order to achieve a solid understanding of the scene based on SLAM, optical flow and graph models, which forms the basis for autonomous arm control.
Project partners: MITI, ImFusion, Neura Robotics
The project is funded by: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie.