UltraDP: Generalizable Carotid Ultrasound Scanning with Force-Aware Diffusion Policy
Ruoqu Chen, Xiangjie Yan, Kangchen Lv, Gao Huang, Zheng Li, and Xiang Li
In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
Present UltraDP, a Diffusion-Policy-based method that receives multi-sensory inputs (ultrasound images, wrist camera image, contact wrench, and probe pose) and generates actions that are fit for multi-modal action distributions in autonomous ultrasound scanning. UltraDP achieves a 95% success rate in transverse scanning on previously unseen subjects, demonstrating its effectiveness.