Construction of emergent medical support robot system to reproduce the mental rotation ability

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16341
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical systems
• Research Institution: Numazu National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Aoki Yusuke 沼津工業高等専門学校, 電子制御工学科, 講師 (70584259)
• Research Collaborator: TANAKA Yuto ; ENDO Yutaro ; SUZUKI Katsuma ; SANO Tokumi ; SETO Shota ; AKAIKE Fumiya ; OHYAMA Takuma ; YOSHIMURA Daichi ; TAKAHASHI Genta ; TORIYA Wakana ; USUI Tatsuya ; TANAKA Tetta
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 超音波診断・治療補助ロボット / メンタルローテーション能力 / 意図推定 / 協調動作 / 生体信号解析 / 超音波断層像処理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we have developed a serial link type Robotic-echography for Diagnosis and Treatment System that can cope with lateral position diagnosis. Next, we evaluated the mental rotation ability potentially possessed by physicians and laboratory technicians in ultrasound diagnosis. Analyzing tips peculiar to experts and quantitatively indicating the mental rotation ability will lead to problems of inexperienced people and support for reducing the burden on doctors. Next, when the experimenter cooperated with the robot, an experiment was conducted to calculate an intention estimation matrix that measures the direction and size of the probe scan intended by the inspector. As a result, regardless of the positional relationship between the robot and the experimenter, we succeeded in estimating the intention of the probe scan of the experimenter.

Free Research Field

医療ロボティクス