Synaptive Medical (barbados) Inc.

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Synaptive Medical Inc.

Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Corporation

Trevor James Dell

Brent Andrew Bailey

Bart Verzijlenberg

Gal Sela

Monroe Milas Thomas

Kamyar Abhari

Kirusha Srimohanarajah

David Bruce McFadzean

Bradley Allan Fernald

Adam Neil Philip

Sean Andrew Dowling

Adam Keith White

Robert Lucas

William Dennis Babby

Mark Leon Unger

Oleg Valerievitch Rakitine

Sean Adrian Conroy

Stephen Abellera

Sagar Saxena

Thomas Alexander Medal

Abhijit Saxena

Florian William Gmeiner

Sean Dowling

Adam Philip

A motion-assisted positioning arm for a medical procedure. The positioning arm includes a base, an arm coupled to the base, and an end effector coupled to the arm. The arm includes a plurality of arm segments. The arm includes a plurality of joints for connecting the arm segments. The end effector may be manipulable with six degrees of freedom in a task-coordinate space based on motion by at least one joint in the plurality of joints. The positioning arm includes a processor to: detect manipulation of and determine forces or torques acting on the end effector; determine a surgical mode for constraining movement of the end effector in the task-coordinate space; determine an end effector velocity based on the determined forces or torques and the surgical mode for moving end effector; and apply at least one joint space movement based on the end effector velocity.

Positioning arm for a surgical navigation system

An automated positioning system and methods of controlling the same. The positioning system includes a multi-joint positioning arm, an end effector coupled to a distal end of the positioning arm, a force-moment sensor (FMS) coupled to the end effector and a controller coupled to communicate with the positioning arm and the FMS. Using signals from the FMS, at least one external force or torque applied to the end effector is determined. A drive velocity for moving the end effector is determined, based on the at least one external force or torque. One or more joint movements of the positioning arm for moving the end effector is calculated, according to the drive velocity. The positioning arm is moved according to the one or more calculated joint movements.

End effector force sensor and manual actuation assistance

A medical navigation system is provided including a surgical positioning system for positioning a payload during a medical procedure. The medical navigation system has a robotic arm having a plurality of joints, the robotic arm forming part of the surgical positioning system and having an end effector for holding the payload, an input device for providing input, and a controller electrically coupled to the robotic arm and the input device. The controller has a processor coupled to a memory and the controller is configured to perform the following during the medical procedure: position the robotic arm in a first position by providing a first positioning signal to the robotic arm; save the first position in the memory as a first saved position in response to a signal received from the input device; position the robotic arm in a second position by providing a second positioning signal to the robotic arm; and return the robotic arm to the first position by loading the first saved position from the memory and providing the first positioning signal to the robotic arm when an input is received from the input device corresponding to a command to return to the first saved position.

System and method for configuring positions in a surgical positioning system

Positioning robot base

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Trevor James Dell