Covidien LP

Burak Yilmaz

William J Peine

Mathew Livianu

A surgical robotic system including a robotic arm and a surgical console. The robotic arm having a plurality of joints and a surgical instrument. The surgical console includes at least one interface device and a controller. The interface device configured to receive a user input. The controller configured to output a command pose based on the user input, wherein the robot arm is configured to move in response to the command pose; process the command pose through a hand pose transform algorithm to generate a desired pose and a previous desired pose; determine a desired delta pose command based on the desired pose, the previous desired pose, and a previous command pose; and process the desired delta pose command through a velocity limiting function to apply at least one velocity limit on the desired delta pose command.

Surgical robotic system with velocity limits

A method of scaling a desired velocity of a tool of a surgical robot with a processing unit includes receiving an input signal, determining a position of the tool relative to a boundary of a surgical site, and scaling a desired velocity of movement of the tool when the tool is within a predetermined distance of the boundary of the surgical site. The input signal includes the desired velocity of movement of the tool.

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