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US 2012/0071863 A1Published application
Surgery robot system, surgery apparatus and method for providing tactile feedback
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyung Kew Lee, Joon Ah Park
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Abstract
A surgery robot system provides tactile feedback. The surgery robot system includes a master robot and a slave robot mounted with a surgery tool including at least one tactile sensor that generates a tactile signal upon contact with a surgery region. The master robot is adapted to generate a control signal to control operation of the surgery tool and to receive and reproduce the tactile signal from the slave robot.
Claims17
A surgery robot system comprising:
- a slave robot mounted with a surgery tool comprising at least one sensor that generates a contact signal upon contact with a surgery region;
- and
- a master robot adapted to generate a control signal to control operation of the surgery tool and to receive and reproduce the contact signal from the slave robot.
A surgery apparatus comprising:
- a surgery tool;
- a user operator to generate a control signal to control operation of the surgery tool in accordance with a user operation;
- at least one sensor to generate a tactile signal upon contact between the surgery tool and a surgery region;
- and
- a tactile reproduction actuator to reproduce the tactile signal.
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A method of providing tactile feedback, comprising:
- generating a control signal to control operation of a surgery tool;
- operating the surgery tool in accordance with the control signal;
- generating a contact signal using at least one sensor in the surgery tool when the surgery tool contacts a surgery region;
- and
- reproducing the contact signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.