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Patent No.:

US 9878449 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2016

Manipulator system

Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroshi Wakai, Tokyo, JP;

Naoya Hatakeyama, Tokyo, JP;

Masatoshi Iida, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Bhavesh V Amin

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 18/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/96 (2016.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); B25J 13/06 (2006.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 90/98 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1635 (2013.01); A61B 1/00059 (2013.01); A61B 1/00133 (2013.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 90/96 (2016.02); A61B 90/98 (2016.02); B25J 9/1638 (2013.01); B25J 9/1689 (2013.01); B25J 13/06 (2013.01); B25J 18/06 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00022 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0034 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2061 (2016.02); A61B 2034/301 (2016.02); G02B 23/2476 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40279 (2013.01); Y10S 901/09 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a manipulator system including: a manipulator that has an insertion section composed of a flexible section and a bending section and that has a bending-section drive unit for driving the bending section; an operation input unit; a flexible-section shape detecting unit and a bending-section shape detecting unit that detect curved shapes of the flexible section and the bending section, respectively; compensation-value setting units that set a compensation value on the basis of the curved shape detected by each of the shape detecting units; and a control unit that generates a curvature control signal for driving the bending-section drive unit according to an operating instruction input via the operation input unit and furthermore corrects the curvature control signal using the compensation value and transmits it to the bending-section drive unit.

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