6-DOF Force Sensing for the Master Tool Manipulator of the da Vinci Surgical System
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We integrated a force/torque sensor into the wrist of the Master Tool Manipulator (MTM) of the da Vinci Standard Surgical system. The added sensor can be used to monitor the surgeon interaction forces and to improve the haptic experience. The proposed mechanical design is expected to have little effect on the surgeon's operative experience and is simple and inexpensive to implement. We also developed a software package that allows for seamless integration of the force sensor into the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) and the Robot Operating System (ROS). The complete mechanical and electrical modifications, as well as the software packages are discussed. Two example applications of impedance control at the MTM and joystick control of the PSM are presented to demonstrate the successful integration of the sensor into the MTM and the interface to the dVRK.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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