Compared to laparoscopy, robotics-assisted minimally invasive surgery has the problem of an absence of force feedback, which is important to prevent a breakage of the suture. To overcome this problem, surgeons infer the suture force from their proprioception and 2D image by comparing them to the training experience. Based on this idea, a deep-learning-based method using a single image and robot position to estimate the tensile force of the sutures without a force sensor is proposed. A neural network structure with a modified Inception Resnet-V2 and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks is used to estimate the suture pulling force. The feasibility of proposed network is verified using the generated DB, recording the interaction under the condition of two different artificial skins and two different situations (in vivo and in vitro) at 13 viewing angles of the images by changing the tool positions collected from the master-slave robotic system. From the evaluation conducted to show the feasibility of the interaction force estimation, the proposed learning models successfully estimated the tensile force at 10 unseen viewing angles during training.
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