Surgical robotics is a rising field in medical technology and advanced robotics. Robot assisted surgery, or robotic surgery, allows surgeons to perform complicated surgical tasks with more precision, automation, and flexibility than is possible for traditional surgical approaches. The main type of robot assisted surgery is minimally invasive surgery, which could be automated and result in a faster healing time for the patient. The surgical robot we are particularly interested in is the da Vinci surgical system, which is developed and manufactured by Intuitive Surgical. In the current iteration of the system, the endoscopic camera arm on the da Vinci robot has to be manually controlled and calibrated by the surgeon during a surgical task, which interrupts the flow of the operation. The main goal of this capstone project is to automate the motion of the camera arm using a probabilistic model based on surgeon eye gaze data and da Vinci robot kinematic data.

翻译：手术机器人是医疗技术与先进机器人领域中的一个新兴方向。机器人辅助手术，或称机器人手术，使外科医生能够以比传统手术方法更高的精度、自动化和灵活性完成复杂的手术任务。机器人辅助手术的主要类型是微创手术，该手术可实现自动化，从而缩短患者的愈合时间。我们特别感兴趣的手术机器人是达芬奇手术系统，该系统由直觉外科公司开发制造。在当前版本的系统下，达芬奇机器人上的内窥镜摄像头臂在手术过程中必须由外科医生手动控制和校准，这会中断手术操作流程。本毕业设计的主要目标是利用基于外科医生眼动注视数据与达芬奇机器人运动学数据的概率模型，来自动化控制摄像头臂的运动。