{"id":19408,"date":"2022-10-24T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cit.upc.edu\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=19408"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:34:46","slug":"saras","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/cit.upc.edu\/en\/portfolio-item\/saras\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAS: Autonomous robotic arms with a cognitive system to assist surgeons in the operating room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SARAS: Towards cognitive robotics in surgery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, during a <strong>laparoscopic or robot-assisted surgical procedure<\/strong>, several units of medical personnel are requested in the operating room: the main surgeon who tele-operates the surgical robot, the assistant surgeon who supports the main surgeon, and nursing staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this paradigm, <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saras-project.eu\/\"><strong>SARAS<\/strong><\/a> (<em>Smart Autonomous Robot Assistant Surgeons<\/em>) has been developed, a project in which the Robotics and Vision group of the <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creb.upc.edu\/\">Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering<\/a> (CREB) of the UPC has participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Improve efficiency and provide an autonomous cognitive system for robotic minimally invasive surgery (R-MIS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of SARAS, next-generation surgical robotic systems have been created so that a single surgeon can execute robotic minimally invasive surgery (R-MIS) without the need of an expert assistant surgeon. This increases the <strong>efficiency of the social and economic resources of a hospital and guarantees the same safety level for patients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of robot that has been worked on consists of an <strong>integral solo-surgery system<\/strong>, through the integration of <strong>two additional assistive robotic arms (which assume the tasks of assistant surgeon)<\/strong> that are autonomous, and a <strong>cognitive and cooperative artificial intelligence core with a surgical robotic system<\/strong>. To achieve this, the auxiliary robots have to learn the basic surgical procedure. They must be able to determine which phase of the process is being carried out, so that they can decide which assistance action must be undertaken once the action of the main surgeon has been completed. This assistance could consist in moving an organ or holding a suture needle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept required the <strong>development of specific technologies <\/strong>for its implementation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The design of a <strong>perception module<\/strong>, which will infer the state of the procedure and the actions carried out by the surgeon who tele-operates the robotic arms or uses standard laparoscopic instruments. This module is also responsible for understanding the complexity of the surgical area by reconstructing, labelling and tracking all of its elements as observed by the available sensors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The design of a <strong>cognitive control model<\/strong> that predicts the following steps in the procedure based on data on real interventions in the structure of complex laparoscopic procedures to identify anomalies, understand the surgeon\u2019s actions (awareness of the situation) and their future needs (decision making).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The design of a <strong>low-level control architecture for multiple robots<\/strong>, in which high-level orders are outlined in orders for the robotic arms. This required the <strong>design of an advanced planning and navigation module <\/strong>that could translate the autonomous decisions made by the cognitive module into the appropriate trajectories for the laparoscopic tools mounted on SARAS assistive robotic arms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The development of the <strong>two assistive robotic arms<\/strong>, instead of the assistant surgeon, with a capacity to guide the standard and specific laparoscopic instruments for the clinical procedure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The technological contribution of CREB-UPC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CREB of the UPC has contributed to the <strong>development of the assistive robot control system <\/strong>to assist the surgeon in robotic tele-operation surgery. This system replaces the auxiliary tasks that are usually carried out by the assistant surgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task that CREB has carried out in the four years of the project has focused on <strong>verifying the effectiveness achieved in the synthetic surgical field<\/strong>, like a radical prostatectomy. The work carried out involved modelling the procedure, establishing the rules of action and integrating it into the \u2018DaVinci Research Kit\u2019, a tele-operation platform that is focused on research into assistive robotics techniques in surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SARAS has been <strong>developed by a consortium comprised <\/strong>of the University of Verona, the University of Modena, the University of Ferrara, San Raffaele Hospital of Milan, the University of Dundee, Brookes University, Medineering Surgical Robotics and ACMIT Austrian Center, and the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), through the Robotics and Vision group of CREB. SARAS has been funded by the <strong>Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation<\/strong> programme with a total amount of \u20ac4,225,000, of which \u20ac410,000 have funded the task of CREB.<br><br>Further information is available <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saras-project.eu\/\">on the project\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24\/10\/2022<br>Project Header<br>right<br>right<br>no-repeat;left top;;<br>auto<br>20px<br><br><h4>SARAS: Towards cognitive robotics in surgery<\/h4><br>auto<br><br>Currently, during a laparoscopic or robot-assisted surgical procedure, several units of medical personnel are requested in the operating room: the main surgeon who tele-operates the surgical robot, the assistant surgeon who supports the main surgeon, and nursing staff.\r<br>\r<br>Under this paradigm, <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saras-project.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SARAS<\/a> (Smart Autonomous Robot Assistant Surgeons) has been developed, a project in which the Robotics and Vision group of the <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creb.upc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering<\/a> (CREB) of the UPC has participated.<br>Main Text<br>no-repeat;left top;;<br>auto<br><br><h4>Improve efficiency and provide an autonomous cognitive system for robotic minimally invasive surgery (R-MIS)<\/h4><br>auto<br><br>As part of SARAS, next-generation surgical robotic systems have been created so that a single surgeon can execute robotic minimally invasive surgery (R-MIS) without the need of an expert assistant surgeon. This increases the efficiency of the social and economic resources of a hospital and guarantees the same safety level for patients.\r<br>\r<br>The concept of robot that has been worked on consists of an integral solo-surgery system, through the integration of two additional assistive robotic arms (which assume the tasks of assistant surgeon) that are autonomous, and a cognitive and cooperative artificial intelligence core with a surgical robotic system. To achieve this, the auxiliary robots have to learn the basic surgical procedure. They must be able to determine which phase of the process is being carried out, so that they can decide which assistance action must be undertaken once the action of the main surgeon has been completed. This assistance could consist in moving an organ or holding a suture needle.\r<br>\r<br>The concept required the development of specific technologies for its implementation:\r<br>\r<br>\tThe design of a perception module, which will infer the state of the procedure and the actions carried out by the surgeon who tele-operates the robotic arms or uses standard laparoscopic instruments. This module is also responsible for understanding the complexity of the surgical area by reconstructing, labelling and tracking all of its elements as observed by the available sensors.\r<br>The design of a cognitive control model that predicts the following steps in the procedure based on data on real interventions in the structure of complex laparoscopic procedures to identify anomalies, understand the surgeon\u2019s actions (awareness of the situation) and their future needs (decision making).\r<br>The design of a low-level control architecture for multiple robots, in which high-level orders are outlined in orders for the robotic arms. This required the design of an advanced planning and navigation module that could translate the autonomous decisions made by the cognitive module into the appropriate trajectories for the laparoscopic tools mounted on SARAS assistive robotic arms.\r<br>The development of the two assistive robotic arms, instead of the assistant surgeon, with a capacity to guide the standard and specific laparoscopic instruments for the clinical procedure.<br>Main Text<br>no-repeat;left top;;<br>auto<br><br><h4>The technological contribution of CREB-UPC<\/h4><br>auto<br><br>The CREB of the UPC has contributed to the development of the assistive robot control system to assist the surgeon in robotic tele-operation surgery. This system replaces the auxiliary tasks that are usually carried out by the assistant surgeon.\r<br>\r<br>The task that CREB has carried out in the four years of the project has focused on verifying the effectiveness achieved in the synthetic surgical field, like a radical prostatectomy. The work carried out involved modelling the procedure, establishing the rules of action and integrating it into the \u2018DaVinci Research Kit\u2019, a tele-operation platform that is focused on research into assistive robotics techniques in surgery.\r<br>\r<br>SARAS has been developed by a consortium comprised of the University of Verona, the University of Modena, the University of Ferrara, San Raffaele Hospital of Milan, the University of Dundee, Brookes University, Medineering Surgical Robotics and ACMIT Austrian Center, and the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), through the Robotics and Vision group of CREB. 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This module is also responsible for understanding the complexity of the surgical area by reconstructing, labelling and tracking all of its elements as observed by the available sensors.\r<br>The design of a cognitive control model that predicts the following steps in the procedure based on data on real interventions in the structure of complex laparoscopic procedures to identify anomalies, understand the surgeon\u2019s actions (awareness of the situation) and their future needs (decision making).\r<br>The design of a low-level control architecture for multiple robots, in which high-level orders are outlined in orders for the robotic arms. This required the design of an advanced planning and navigation module that could translate the autonomous decisions made by the cognitive module into the appropriate trajectories for the laparoscopic tools mounted on SARAS assistive robotic arms.\r<br>The development of the two assistive robotic arms, instead of the assistant surgeon, with a capacity to guide the standard and specific laparoscopic instruments for the clinical procedure.<br>Main Text<br>no-repeat;left top;;<br>auto<br><br><h4>The technological contribution of CREB-UPC<\/h4><br>auto<br><br>The CREB of the UPC has contributed to the development of the assistive robot control system to assist the surgeon in robotic tele-operation surgery. 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