Intelligent positioning of robot arm cart
AssigneeMazor Robotics Ltd.
InventorsWeijun Xu, Wei Tang, Fang Geng
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Abstract
A surgical system, navigation system, and method are provided. An illustrative system includes a robot mounted to a movable base, the robot including one or more robotic arms, a processor, and memory coupled with the processor. The memory includes data stored thereon that, when processed by the processor, enables the processor to: receive image data describing a position of the one or more robotic arms relative to a surgical target area; determine a current position of the robot is sub-optimal for enabling the robot to access the surgical target area; and provide at least one of instructions and animations for moving the movable base from the current position to a new position.
Claims21
A system, comprising:
- a robot mounted to a movable base, the robot comprising one or more robotic arms;
- a processor;
- and
- memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising data stored thereon that, when processed by the processor, enables the processor to:
- receive image data describing a position of the one or more robotic arms relative to a surgical target area;
- determine a current position of the robot is sub-optimal for enabling the robot to access the surgical target area;
- and
- provide at least one of instructions and animations for moving the movable base from the current position to a new position.
A navigation system, comprising:
- an imaging device;
- a processor;
- and
- memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising data stored thereon that, when processed by the processor, enables the processor to:
- receive image data from the imaging device, wherein the image data comprises an image of a robotic arm and an image of a surgical target area;
- determine a position of the robotic arm;
- determine a position of the surgical target area;
- determine, based on the position of the robotic arm and the position of the surgical target area, that a cart supporting the robotic arm is sub-optimally placed relative to the surgical target area;
- and
- provide at least one of instructions and animations for moving the cart from a current position to a new position.
A method comprising:
- receiving image data from an imaging device, wherein the image data comprises an image of a robotic arm and an image of a surgical target area;
- determining a position of the robotic arm relative to a position of the surgical target area;
- determining, based on the position of the robotic arm relative to the position of the surgical target area, that a cart supporting the robotic arm is sub-optimally placed relative to the surgical target area;
- and
- providing at least one of instructions and animations for moving the cart from a current position to a new position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.