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In minimally invasive robotic surgery, the surgical instrument is usually inserted inside the patient&#x2019;s body through a small incision, which acts as a remote center of motion (RCM). Serial-link manipulators can be used as macro robots on which microsurgical robotic instruments are mounted to increase the number of degrees of freedom of the system and ensure safe task and RCM motion execution. However, the surgical instrument needs to be placed in an appropriate configuration when completing the motion tasks. The contribution of this article is to present a novel framework that preoperatively identifies the best base configuration, in terms of Roll, Pitch, and Yaw angles, of the microsurgical instrument with respect to the macro serial-link manipulator&#x2019;s end effector in order to achieve the maximum accuracy and dexterity in performing specified tasks. The framework relies on hierarchical quadratic programming for the control, genetic algorithm for the optimization, and on a resilience to error strategy to make sure deviations from the optimum do not affect the system&#x2019;s performance. Simulation results show that the mounting configuration of the surgical instrument significantly impacts the performance of the whole macro&#x2013;micro manipulator in executing the desired motion tasks, and both the simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed optimization method improves the overall performance.

Optimization of Surgical Robotic Instrument Mounting in a Macro–Micro Manipulator Setup for Improving Task Execution