Surgical robotic arm with proximity skin sensing
AssigneeOrthosoft Ulc
InventorsPierre Maillet, Patrice Bonaric, Maxence Francois, Laurent Ricatti
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Abstract
A robotized computer-assisted surgery system may include a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for obtaining readings from some capacitive sensors representative of at least one object within range; generating a surface model of the at least one object from the readings; and continuously tracking and outputting the position and orientation of the at least one object relative to the robot arm, using the readings and the surface model.
Claims19
A robotized computer-assisted surgery system, comprising:
- a robot arm;
- an in-robot sensor system in the robot arm, the in-robot robot system having a plurality of capacitive sensors;
- a processing unit;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for:
- obtaining readings from at least some of the plurality of capacitive sensors representative of at least one object within range;
- generating a surface model of the at least one object from the readings;
- and
- continuously tracking and outputting the position and orientation of the at least one object relative to the robot arm, using the readings and the surface model.
A robotized computer-assisted surgery system, comprising:
- a robot arm;
- an in-robot sensor system in the robot arm, the in-robot robot system having a plurality of capacitive sensors, the plurality of capacitive sensors are concealed within the robot arm;
- a processing unit;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for:
- obtaining readings from at least some of the capacitive sensors representative of at least one object within range of the capacitive sensors;
- processing the readings to determine a location of the at least one object relative to the robot arm;
- and
- triggering a user interaction with the robotized computer-assisted surgery system when the at least one object is at a given location relative to the robot arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.