Surgical Gym: A high-performance GPU-based platform for reinforcement learning with surgical robots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04676v2
• Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:07:37 GMT
• Title: Surgical Gym: A high-performance GPU-based platform for reinforcement learning with surgical robots
• Authors: Samuel Schmidgall, Axel Krieger, Jason Eshraghian
• Abstract summary: We introduce Surgical Gym, an open-source high performance platform for surgical robot learning. We demonstrate between 100-5000x faster training times compared with previous surgical learning platforms.
• Score: 1.6415802723978308
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in robot-assisted surgery have resulted in progressively more precise, efficient, and minimally invasive procedures, sparking a new era of robotic surgical intervention. This enables doctors, in collaborative interaction with robots, to perform traditional or minimally invasive surgeries with improved outcomes through smaller incisions. Recent efforts are working toward making robotic surgery more autonomous which has the potential to reduce variability of surgical outcomes and reduce complication rates. Deep reinforcement learning methodologies offer scalable solutions for surgical automation, but their effectiveness relies on extensive data acquisition due to the absence of prior knowledge in successfully accomplishing tasks. Due to the intensive nature of simulated data collection, previous works have focused on making existing algorithms more efficient. In this work, we focus on making the simulator more efficient, making training data much more accessible than previously possible. We introduce Surgical Gym, an open-source high performance platform for surgical robot learning where both the physics simulation and reinforcement learning occur directly on the GPU. We demonstrate between 100-5000x faster training times compared with previous surgical learning platforms. The code is available at: https://github.com/SamuelSchmidgall/SurgicalGym.

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