Robotic Eye Training Assembly With Simulated Ocular Motion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical training for laser eye therapies requires extensive experience on live animals or humans, leading to ethical concerns and potential complications, and lacks effective robotic simulations that accurately mimic human or animal eye structures for precise ocular procedures.
Innovation Solution
A remote eye surgery training system utilizing a robotics assembly with a base plate, faceplate, data repository, and eye holder, capable of simulating human or animal eye movements, including iris responses and intraocular pressure, to perform realistic ocular procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If current surgical training uses live animals or humans, then surgical training realism is improved, but ethical concerns and potential complications increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a robotic simulation system that copies the anatomical structures, movements, and responses of live eyes using artificial eyes mounted on robotic assemblies. The system replicates saccadic movements, smooth pursuits, and other ocular behaviors through programmable robotic control, providing a realistic training environment without using live animals or humans.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If robotic simulation is used to replace live training, then ethical concerns and complications are reduced, but simulation realism and accuracy decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic eye assembly incorporates dynamic movement capabilities that replicate natural ocular behavior. The system can program and execute saccadic movements, smooth pursuits, and other time-dependent ocular responses, allowing the simulation to adapt and respond dynamically during surgical training procedures rather than remaining static.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows for parameter changes in the robotic eye's behavior through programmable control. Different ocular conditions, movement patterns, and response characteristics can be adjusted and simulated by modifying control parameters, enabling realistic representation of various clinical scenarios while maintaining ethical standards.
3Measurement precision
If extensive training on live subjects is required, then surgical skill proficiency is improved, but training time and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
By creating a reusable robotic simulation system that copies live ocular anatomy and behavior, the patent enables repeated practice sessions without consuming additional live subjects. Trainees can perform numerous surgical procedures on the robotic eye, gaining proficiency through repetition while the system maintains its realism through programmable responses and movements.
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AI summary
A method for ocular simulated camera assisted robot training is provided. In some implementations, the method includes initializing, by a processor, a robotics assembly. The method further includes connecting, by the processor, to one or more computing devices. The method further includes operating, by the processor, the robotics assembly. The method further includes simulating, by the processor, an eye movement of a human or animal. The method further includes operating, by the processor, a laser to perform a determined exercise on an eye of the robotics assembly. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.