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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samuel Kwok Wai Au, Mountain View, CA (US);
Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carolyn M. Fenech, San Jose, CA (US);
Catherine J. Mohr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Calci Pisa, IT;
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A robotic system comprises an instrument including proximal distal sections. The distal section comprises a steerable segment and a distal tip. The instrument also includes a main lumen and a pull wire. The system also comprises a sensor to detect a position of the distal tip of the instrument and a computing device that causes the system to record a position of a working configuration of the distal tip, determine, based on a sensor signal, a movement of the distal tip in response to insertion of a probe into the main lumen, and generate a control signal based on the determined movement. The system also comprises a drive interface connected to the pull wire at the proximal section of the instrument. The drive interface adjusts a tensioning of the pull wire based on the control signal to return the distal tip towards the working configuration recorded before the movement occurred.