Inspiration
Thousands of surgeons worldwide have been trained on Da Vinci systems and have performed over 7 million surgical procedures while being personally present and using the equipment. However, during the pandemic not all surgeons were able to engage in treatments and surgeries mainly due to overwhelming cases and they need to travel a great deal of distances. This greatly affected patients who were in urgent need of surgeries but couldn’t help due to lack of availability of a surgeon.
What it does
A VR Controlled Da Vinci Surgical System that will improve instrument visibility, precision, and control in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. It's almost as if the surgeon has been relocated to that location. One can imagine a robot-assisted surgical system that first synchronizes the surgical robot with VR headsets and haptic gloves along with four basic instruments used in the Da Vinci surgical system, before allowing the operator to operate on patients. We used ROS to control the da Vinci system and simulate it in Unity Robotics simulator with VR Headsets and used Ardity, Arduino and other libraries.
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we were able to generate an idea that could aid us in unimaginable ways and function as a boon in the next decades.
What we learned
ROS, Unity Robotics Simulator, VR
What's next for VR controlled Remote surgery system
Real-time operation of apparatus by developing required hardware.
Built With
- ros
- unity
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