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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Robot. 2013 Feb 1;29(1):15–31. doi: 10.1109/TRO.2012.2226382

TABLE III. Measured Performance Indices Averaged Across the 12 Subjects in Study I.

w/o DAC with DAC Improv.
Task efficiency Mean SD Mean SD % *p-val.

Complet. Time (sec) 333.8 94.78 143.9 11.15 57 *.0001
Aver. Trav. Dist. (mm) 543.5 191.0 114.9 22.60 79 *.0000
No. of Polyps Missed 0.33 0.65 0 0 100*.104

Targeting error Mean SD Mean SD % *p-val.

Aver. Dist. Err. (mm) 2.63 0.67 1.68 0.40 36 *.0004
Aver. Ang. Err. (°) 7.64 1.76 4.76 0.81 38 *.0001
No. of Times Missed 1.87 0.90 1.20 0.50 36 *.0314

Deviation Mean SD Mean SD % *p-val.

No. of Times 63.08 27.39 34.00 7.05 46 *.0025
Max. Depth (mm) 33.66 6.22 10.72 4.98 68 *.0000
Aver. Depth (mm) 7.30 2.30 2.21 0.81 70 *.0000
Aver. Time (sec) 3.99 2.46 0.43 0.12 89 *.0004
Max. Time (sec) 54.08 35.13 3.07 2.55 94 *.0004
Total Length (mm) 4268 1585 372.9 144.6 91 *.0000