Kuka Laboratories Gmbh

Kuka Roboter Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Otojig Gmbh

Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v.

Kuka Deutschland Gmbh

Kuka Aktiengesellschaft

Hörsys IP Gmbh & Co. Kg

Tobias Ortmaier

Dirk Jacob

Marc-Walter Ueberle

Thomas Neff

Martin Kuschel

Thomas Lenarz

Andreas Hagenauer

Dietmar Tscharnuter

Peter Heiligensetzer

Norbert Settele

Torsten Hasenzahl

Omid Majdani

Matthias Mühlhäusser

Achim Heinze

Georg Passig

Thomas Stephan Rau

Samuel John

Jan-Philipp Kobler

Jens Kotlarski

Simon Aden

Andreas Schoob

Marcel Kluge

Lorenz Bewig

Till Engelmann

Sebastian Tauscher

Lennart Claassen

Matthias Dagen

Georg Eggers

Vitor Vieira

A positioning aid for surgical procedures has a carrier system and a template. The carrier system consists of a carrier plate, which is provided with a recess, and supports. The carrier plate can be secured to a cranial bone via the supports over an operating field for the surgical procedure. The template has a template plate which can be connected to the carrier plate in a play-free manner and which comprises a guiding aperture. The guiding aperture is arranged and oriented in the template plate, which consists of a blank, in an individualized manner according to coordinates ascertained in advance. The central longitudinal axis of the guiding aperture matches a trajectory for accessing the operating field for the surgical procedure when the carrier system and the template are assembled and the carrier system is secured to the cranial bone.

Positioning aid for surgical procedures

A telepresence system includes a man-machine interface and a teleoperator configured to communicate bidirectionally with the man-machine interface via a communications channel. The teleoperator performs actions based on first signals generated due to a manual operation of the man-machine interface and transmitted over the communication channel, and sends second signals to the man-machine interface over a second communication channel. At least one buffer device buffers signals transferred through the communication channel and releases the signals delayed so that the signals coming from the man-machine interface and the signals coming from the teleoperator each are transmitted through the communication channel with an effective constant time delay.

Telepresence system

A method for error recognition in a control system of a medical treatment and/or diagnosis device includes processing, by the control system, data in a regular operating mode and supplying, by the control system, test data of a test data record to a safety-critical component of the control system in a test mode of the control system. The safety-critical component of the control system is also checked in the test mode of the control system.

Method for error recognition in a control system of a medical treatment and/or diagnosis device

The invention relates to a robot and a method for controlling a robot. The distance between an object and the robot and/or the derivative thereof or a first motion of the object is detected by means of a non-contact distance sensor arranged in or on a robot arm of the robot and/or on or in an end effector fastened on the robot arm. The robot arm is moved based on the first motion detected by means of the distance sensor, a target force or a target torque to be applied by the robot is determined based on the distance detected between the object and the robot, and/or a function of the robot or a parameterization of a function of the robot is triggered based on the first motion detected and/or a target distance between the object and the robot and/or the derivative thereof detected by means of the distance sensor.

Robot and method for controlling a robot

The invention relates to a robot (R), a medical work station, and a method for projecting an image () onto the surface of an object (P). The robot (R) comprises a robot arm (A) and a device () for projecting the image () onto the surface of the object (P), said device () being mounted on or integrated into the robot arm (A).

Robot, medical work station, and method for projecting an image onto the surface of an object

The invention relates to a medical robot (R) and a method for meeting the performance requirements of a medical robot (R). The robot (R) comprises several axes (-) and a controller (). A medical tool (-) is fixed to a fixing device () on the robot (R) and the working range () of the robot (R) is set by the controller () in particular with safe techniques such that the robot (R) meets the performance requirements of the medical tool (-).

Medical robot and method for meeting the performance requirements of a medical robot

A medical work station for treating a living being using a medical instrument includes at least one robot arm, which has a plurality of members connected by joints, drives to move the members, and an attaching device, at least one control device coupled with the drives, which is set up to generate signals for actuating the drives, so that the attaching devices carry out movements assigned to the signals, and a display device coupled with the control device.

Medical workstation

The invention relates to a sterile barrier (S) for a surgical robot () comprising at least one joint () with two opposing joint members () that rotate relative to one another about a common joint axis () and a torque sensor () comprising: at least two sterile barrier sections () each with an end section () for sealed attachment to a respective joint end section () of the joint member (); and a sealing arrangement () for producing a sterile and sealed rotating connection of the end sections () of the at least two sterile barrier sections (); and a surgical robot ().

Sterile barrier for a surgical robot with torque sensors

The invention relates to a medical workstation and an operating device () for the manual movement of a robot arm (M-M). The operating device () comprises a controller () and at least one manual mechanical input device (E-E) coupled to the controller (). The controller () is designed to generate signals for controlling a movement of at least one robot arm (M-M) provided for treating a living being (P) based on a manual movement of the input device (E-E) such that the robot arm (M-M) carries out a movement corresponding to the manual movement. The input device (EE) comprises at least one mechanical damping unit (), which generates a force and/or torque during a manual movement of the input device (EE) for at least partially suppressing a partial movement resulting from a tremor of the person operating the input device (EE).

Medical workstation and operating device for the manual movement of a robot arm

The invention relates to a method for determining a position for and positioning a detection device (E) of a navigation system. First, a computer simulation of a system is done that comprises a robot (R) which has first markers (M) of a navigation system or first prominent points, a three-dimensional object (P) which has second markers (M) of the navigation system or second prominent points, and a detection device (E) of the navigation system. Various positions of the robot (R), the object (P), and/or the detection device (E) are simulated, and the quality of the detectability of the first markers (M) or the first prominent points on the robot (R) and/or the second markers (M) or the second prominent points on the object (P) are automatically determined for the simulated positions by means of the detection device (E). The determined qualities and the corresponding simulated positions and/or the simulated position having the highest or at least a sufficiently high determined quality is/are output.

Method for determining a position for and positioning a detection device of a navigation system

The invention relates to an X-ray device () for a medical workplace (). The X-ray device () comprises a robot (R) with a plurality of axes (), a control device () for controlling the axes () for movement of the robot (R), and a fastening device (), and a support device () disposed at the fastening device (), said support device comprising an X-ray radiation source () and an X-ray radiation receiver (). A 3D model () of the robot (R) and the support device () provided is stored in the control device (), said 3D model modeling the spatial extension of the robot (R) and the support device () during movement of the robot (R). The 3D model () also models the spatial extension of at least one other device (, R) of the medical workplace () and/or of a living organism () located within the medical workplace (). The control device () recognizes a potential collision of the X-ray device () with the other device (, R) and/or the living organism () based on the 3D model () and prompts the robot (R) to take action to avoid the potential collision.

X-ray device and medical workplace

The invention relates to a medical device, a medical work station, and a method for registering an object (P). The medical device comprises a navigation system () and a robot (R) having several axes of rotation (-). The navigation system () comprises a detection device () for detecting prominent points on an object (P) or markers (M) placed on the object (P) as well as a processing device () for determining the position of the object (P) on the basis of the prominent points or markers (M) detected by means of the detection device (). The detection device () of the navigation system is mounted on the robot (R).

Device comprising a robot, medical work station, and method for registering an object

In a method to test a brake of a robot that has a number of axes, an actuator associated with one of the axes, a brake associated with this axis that is set up to at least reduce a movement of this axis, and a torque sensor associated with this axis, which determines the torque acting on this axis. The brake is activated, the torque acting on the axis is determined by the torque sensor given an activated brake, and the functional capability of the brake is assessed in a processor based on an evaluation of the torque determined by the torque sensor.

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