Surgical Platform Trolley Interface for Coordinated Robot Repositioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional surgical robots and robotic systems lack coordinated movement with surgical tables, making interconnection and synchronization during surgery difficult.
Innovation Solution
A surgical platform and trolley assembly that includes a support structure, lifting/adjustment portion, and carriage portion, allowing for interconnectability with a surgical robot or robotic system, enabling coordinated movement and positioning of the surgical platform relative to the robotic system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional surgical robots and robotic systems are positioned independently on the ground relative to surgical tables, then each system can be moved freely, but coordinated movement between the robotic system and surgical table becomes very difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the surgical table and robotic system base into a unified movable platform. The robotic system base is integrated with the surgical table structure, allowing them to move together as a single coordinated unit rather than independently, thus achieving synchronized positioning without complex separate control mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The surgical table is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a patient support structure and as an integrated base for the robotic system. This universal platform performs multiple functions including supporting the patient, providing a stable base for robotic arms, and enabling coordinated movement, thereby reducing the need for separate dedicated structures.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the surgical table is made adjustable and articulated to reposition patients, then patient positioning flexibility is improved, but coordination with robotic system movement becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor the position and orientation of both the surgical table and robotic arms. This feedback enables real-time coordination, allowing the adjustable table to reposition patients while the robotic system automatically adjusts its arm positions to maintain optimal surgical alignment, thus preserving both flexibility and coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamic adjustment capabilities where the surgical table and robotic arms can move and adapt their positions in real-time during surgery. The articulated table sections can be dynamically repositioned for patient access while the robotic system dynamically compensates to maintain surgical precision, enabling both flexibility and coordination through continuous adaptive movement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the robotic system base is positioned adjacent to the patient's head, feet, or lateral sides, then access to different surgical sites is improved, but coordinated repositioning with the surgical table becomes very difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic system is segmented into multiple independent arms that can be positioned at different locations (head, feet, lateral sides) relative to the patient. Each arm can be independently positioned and adjusted while the integrated base moves with the surgical table, allowing access to various surgical sites while maintaining coordinated repositioning capability through the unified platform structure.
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AI summary
A surgical platform and trolley assembly and an interface of a robotic system are provided. The surgical platform and trolley assembly includes a trolley portion and a surgical platform portion. The trolley portion supports the surgical platform portion, and affords positioning and repositioning of the surgical platform portion relative to the interface of the robotic system. An end portion of the surgical platform portion is attachable relative to the robotic system via engagement to the interface.