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AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsPaul Griffiths, Paul Mohr, Nitish Swarup, Michael Hanuschik
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User-initiated break-away clutching includes a robotic system having a joint, a brake or drive unit coupled to the joint, and a control system coupled with the brake or drive unit. The control system is configured to determine a first manual effort applied to the joint; inhibit, using the brake or drive unit, manual articulation of the joint in response to the first manual effort being below an articulation threshold; facilitate, using the brake or drive unit, the manual articulation of the joint in response to the first manual effort exceeding the articulation threshold; and inhibit, using the brake or drive unit, further manual articulation of the joint in response to a determination that a speed of the manual articulation of the joint is below a speed threshold.
A robotic system comprising:
A method of controlling a robotic system, the method comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors associated with a robotic system are adapted to cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.