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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Denise Ann Miller, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joan Savaii, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Randall Blake Hellman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods to detect a free-falling or other non-surgical motions of the user interface device (UID) of a surgical robotic system so that the surgical robotic system may pause the robotic arm controlled by the UID to prevent the robotic arm from mimicking the unintentional movement of the UID. Contact sensors embedded in the UID may be used to detect conditions indicating that a user does not possess full control of the UID. After determining that the user does not have full control of the UID, the UID may detect if the UID is experiencing non-surgical motions using motion sensors such as inertial sensors. By conditioning analysis of the data from the motion sensors by the initial determination that the UID is not being held based on the contact sensors, the method increases the robustness of the detection of non-surgical motions and reduces the probability of false positives.