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Control of robotic manipulation

Robotic manipulation control that locks motion relative to a sensed object region now becomes free to commercialize.

What it is

The controller uses region sensing on an object and constrains the robot’s motion to maintain a locked relationship to that selected region while sensing continues. This reduces operator control complexity by turning unconstrained 6-DOF manipulation into region-relative constrained motion rather than freehand teleoperation. Previously, teams typically needed a license from Intuitive Surgical to use this specific region-locked manipulation control scheme in commercial surgical robotics or training systems.

What you could build

Build image-guided surgical training rigs or semi-autonomous robotic tools that lock instrument motion to tracked tissue regions without royalties.

Patent number
7953842B2
Expiration
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Assignee
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Inventors
Darrin J. Uecker, John R. Freund, Henri Z. B. van Buel

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