Luigi Muratore
Nail It!: a learNing framework for Autonomous surgIcaL suturIng and Teleoperation on the dVRK.
Rel. Giuseppe Bruno Averta, Alberto Arezzo, Matteo Pescio, Federica Barontini, Francesco Marzola. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Mechatronic Engineering (Ingegneria Meccatronica), 2026
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Robotic-assisted surgery has significantly enhanced precision, dexterity, and ergonomics in minimally invasive procedures. However, surgical suturing remains one of the most challenging tasks to automate due to its requirement for fine manipulation, bimanual coordination, and robustness to geometric and visual variability. Recently, Reinforcement Learning has emerged as a promising approach for autonomous surgical skill acquisition. Progress is often limited by the lack of high-fidelity simulation environments that accurately reproduce the kinematics, constraints, and control interfaces of real surgical systems. In particular, existing simulators for the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) frequently rely on simplified models and lack seamless integration with teleoperation and learning pipelines, increasing the sim-to-real gap and limiting experimental reproducibility.
This thesis presents Nail It!, a unified Unity–ROS learning framework designed to support autonomous and surgeon-in-the-loop training of surgical manipulation tasks on the dVRK
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