Accession Number:

ADA411527

Title:

Neural Network Methods for Error Canceling in Human-Machine Manipulation

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA ROBOTICS INST

Personal Author(s):

• Ang, Wei T.
• Riviere, Cameron N.

Report Date:

2001-10-25

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

A neural network technique is employed to cancel hand motion error during microsurgery. A cascade-correlation neural network trained via extended Kalman filtering was tested on 15 recordings of hand movement collected from 4 surgeons. The neural network was trained to output the surgeons desired motion, suppressing erroneous components. In experiments this technique reduced the root mean square error rmse of the erroneous motion by an average of 39.5. This was 9.6 greater than the reduction achieved in earlier work, which followed the complimentary approach of estimating the error rather than the desired component. Preliminary results are also presented from tests in which training and testing data were taken from different surgeons.

Descriptors:

• *SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
• *MICROSURGERY
• ROBOTICS
• NEURAL NETS
• CANCELLATION
• HAND HELD
• TREMORS

Subject Categories:

• Medical Facilities, Equipment and Supplies
• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE