A Fuzzy Reasoning System for Computer-Guided Laparoscopy Training

A system called the Computer-Assisted Surgical Trainer (CAST) that provides force, visual, and audio guidance with objective assessments for laparoscopic surgery skills training in a non-patient training setup was developed. To support the guidance and assessment of trainees, given an object transfer task, a fuzzy reasoning system is proposed to estimate states of objects as well as the completion of basic actions. A peg transfer task is implemented as a target application. Based on a modeling approach of this peg transfer task, fuzzy production rules are defined and a reasoning process is designed. The experimental test results show the effectiveness of the proposed fuzzy reasoning system.

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