METHOD, APPARATUS AND A SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC ASSISTED SURGERY

• US 20140142591A1
• Filed: 04/23/2013
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Alvarez, Jeffery B., Zhang, Jian, Seam, Alisha
• Application Number:
  US13/868,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20140142591A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3735 Optical coherence tomography [OCT]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00736 Instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection, e.g. cataract instruments A61F9/008 takes precedence

Abstract

A solution to facilitate robotic assisted surgery is discussed that allows for improved vision and manipulation.

Claims

1. A system for facilitating robotic surgery comprising:

at least two robotic arms to facilitate a surgical application;

one of the robotic arms to enable control of a vision system;

wherein

the vision system includes a three dimensional (3D) capability that includes an integrated global OCT (optical coherence tomography) to offer tissue surface identification and the global OCT to establish the world coordinate system to which the robotic arms are registered.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein each robotic arm to be aware of their location and a relative location of the other robotic arm.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the vision system supports a six degree of freedom.

4. The system of claim 1 to define a boundary for maneuvers of the robotic arms based at least in part on the Global OCT.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein a plurality of Global OCT is presented in a three dimensional format either as an overlay onto the imaged anatomy or as a secondary image.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising an algorithm for identifying a shadow area from a tool.