SURGERY ROBOT SYSTEM, SURGERY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK

• US 20130237995A1
• Filed: 03/21/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: LEE, Hyung Kew, PARK, Joon-Ah
• Application Number:
  US13/848,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20130237995A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00084 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00791 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/065 for measuring contact or contact pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/35 for telesurgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/37 Master-slave robots A61B34/35 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/76 Manipulators having means for providing feel, e.g. force or tactile feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/06 Measuring instruments not otherwise provided for

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.

Claims

1. 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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the contact signal comprises converting the conatct signal generated from the at least one sensor into an electrical signal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the contactsignal comprises detecting a variation of temperature of the surgery tool by a temperature sensor and generating a temperature signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the contact signal comprises detecting a degree of contact between the surgery tool and the surgery region according to a mechanical deformation of the surgery tool, and generating a tactile signal as the contact signal according to the degree of contact being detected.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the reproducing the contact signal comprises:

generating a temperature value corresponding to the temperature signal by driving a temperature value generator; and

displaying the contact signal and the temperature signal.