Deep Movement Primitives: Toward Breast Cancer Examination Robot

Oluwatoyin Sanni, Giorgio Bonvicini, Muhammad Arshad Khan, Pablo C. Lopez-Custodio, Kiyanoush Nazari, Amir M. Ghalamzan E.

[AAAI-22] AI for Social Impact Track
Abstract: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide. A robotic system performing autonomous breast palpation can make a significant impact on the related health sector worldwide. However, robot programming for breast palpating with different geometries is very complex and unsolved. Robot learning from demonstrations (LfD) re- duces the programming time and cost. However, the available LfD are lacking the modelling of the manipulation path/trajectory as an explicit function of the visual sensory information. This paper presents a novel approach to manipulation path/trajectory planning called deep Movement Primitives that successfully generates the movements of a manipulator to reach a breast phantom and perform the palpation. We show the effectiveness of our approach by a series of real-robot experiments of reaching and palpating a breast phantom. The experimental results indicate our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art method.

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