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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Brian Rockrohr, Guilford, CT (US);
Eric Taylor, Southington, CT (US);
Matthew Hartzsch, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Colin Murphy, Cambridge, MA (US);
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A robotic surgical system and method of selectively binding articulation limits to a surgical instrument includes detecting a proximal or a distal linear movement of the surgical instrument, calculating a distance between a tool center point of the surgical instrument after the proximal or the distal linear movement and a remote center of motion, assigning and binding an articulation limit to the surgical instrument based on the calculated distance when the detected linear movement is distal linear movement, and assigning a non-binding articulation limit to the surgical instrument based on the calculated distance when the detected linear movement is proximal a linear movement.