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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Niels Smaby, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory W. Dachs, II, San Mateo, CA (US);
Nicola Diolaiti, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pushkar Hingwe, Los Altos, CA (US);
Thomas R. Nixon, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce M. Schena, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nitish Swarup, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes manipulators and a controller. The controller is configured to detect mounting of an imaging device to a first manipulator of the manipulators, determine a first reference frame for the imaging device based on the mounting of the imaging device to the first manipulator, control a tool relative to the first reference frame by controlling a relative position and orientation of a tip of the tool relative to the imaging device in the first reference frame by correlating movement of a master input control to movement of the tool in the first reference frame, detect mounting of the imaging device to a second manipulator of the manipulators, the second manipulator being different from the first manipulator, determine a second reference frame for the imaging device based on the mounting of the imaging device to the second manipulator, and control the tool relative to the second reference frame.