Motion Primitive Recognition in Tooth Removal Surgery

Master Thesis (2022)
Author(s)

B. Bornhijm (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)

Contributor(s)

T.C.T. Van Riet – Mentor (Amsterdam UMC)

Jens Kober – Mentor (TU Delft - Learning & Autonomous Control)

Jan de Lange – Graduation committee member (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

D Dodou – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology)

Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright
© 2022 Bram Bornhijm
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Copyright
© 2022 Bram Bornhijm
Graduation Date
07-12-2022
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Programme
['Mechanical Engineering | Vehicle Engineering | Cognitive Robotics']
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
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Abstract

Whilst the extraction of teeth (exodontia) remains one of the oldest and most performed surgeries on earth, very little is understood about the procedure itself. Especially in the area of the required movements, torques and forces to remove specific teeth and how these interact with existing tissue. This knowledge gap has been hypothesized to contribute to an increasing referral rate towards Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) practices in the Netherlands for simple extractions due to low confidence in young dentists. The objective of this project is to apply techniques used in imitation-learning in the field of robotics to deconstruct complex movement into smaller fundamental building blocks called movement primitives (MPs) to deepen the understanding of exodontia. To achieve this an existing dataset was used consisting of high resolution force-, torque-, position- and rotation-data of extractions. This dataset was collected using a measurement setup consisting of fresh frozen cadaver material, a force torque sensor and a robotic arm in gravity compensation mode. In this paper a novel iterative two staged method for identifying movement primitives is introduced and employed to extract movement primitive information from these extractions in the dataset.

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