Voice control interface for surgical robot assistants
<|reference_start|>Voice control interface for surgical robot assistants: Traditional control interfaces for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery impose a significant cognitive load on surgeons. To improve surgical efficiency, surgeon-robot collaboration capabilities, and reduce surgeon burden, we present a novel voice control interface for surgical robotic assistants. Our system integrates Whisper, state-of-the-art speech recognition, within the ROS framework to enable real-time interpretation and execution of voice commands for surgical manipulator control. The proposed system consists of a speech recognition module, an action mapping module, and a robot control module. Experimental results demonstrate the system's high accuracy and inference speed, and demonstrates its feasibility for surgical applications in a tissue triangulation task. Future work will focus on further improving its robustness and clinical applicability.<|reference_end|>
@article{davila2024voice,
    title={Voice control interface for surgical robot assistants},
    author={Ana Davila, Jacinto Colan, Yasuhisa Hasegawa},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10225},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.10225},
    primaryClass={cs.RO cs.HC}
}