Sensorized Psychomotor Skill Assessment Platform Built on a Robotic Surgery Phantom

Abstract

The spread of robot-assisted minimal invasive surgery presents new challenges to surgeons and researchers alike. The novel surgical tools, methods and processes require different skills from the clinicians, thus surgical training and skillassessment has become increasingly important. In this article, we describe the modification process of a widely used training device, the Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) Dome, that was made capable of automatic skill-assessment too, by applying different sensors on it. The basic principles and methods of the sensorization process are shown, together with the first results obtained on the amended training platform.