Navigation of elongated robotically-driven devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to navigation of elongated robotically-driven devices. In order to improve the workflow and to provide further assistance in handling an interventional device by a robot arrangement, a navigation system (10) for assisting in robotic anatomical pathway navigation of an elongated robotically-driven device is provided that comprises a data input (12), a data processor (14) and an output interface (16). The data input is configured to receive: robot-related data of a designated robot provided for performing at least one endoluminal-related task, device-related data related to inherent or mechanical properties of at least one elongated device to be driven by the designated robot, and subject-related anatomical pathway image data of a region of interest, in which the device is to be moved by the designated robot; and to provide the data to the data processor. The data processor is configured to compute an estimation of a working range for the at least one device in the anatomical pathway based on the robot-related data, the device-related data and the subject-related anatomical pathway image data being inputs for the estimation computation. The output interface is configured to provide the estimated working range.

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