Virtual Operating Room for Surgical Robot Layout Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical robotic systems lack an efficient method for planning and optimizing the arrangement of surgical robotic arms and equipment before procedures, leading to potential delays and increased risks during minimally invasive surgeries.
Innovation Solution
A system and process for planning surgical robotic workflow involves generating a virtual surgical environment with virtual robotic arms and tools, determining optimal workspace and tool positions, and using sensor feedback to optimize the physical layout of equipment, allowing for incremental improvements in workflow and layout arrangement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If surgical robotic workflow is planned without virtual simulation, then setup time is reduced, but procedural reliability and success rate deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary planning and optimization of surgical robotic workflow in a virtual environment before actual surgery. Virtual robotic arms and tools are positioned, workspaces are determined, and potential collisions are identified in advance, allowing the physical setup to be executed more efficiently while ensuring procedural reliability through pre-validation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of surgical robotic arms, tools, and operating room environments to simulate and optimize workflows. These virtual models replicate the physical system's geometry and constraints, enabling risk-free planning and arrangement optimization that can be transferred to the actual surgical setup.
2Reliability
If virtual simulation is used to plan surgical robotic workflow, then procedural reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces complex physical trial-and-error setup processes with virtual simulation and computational optimization. Instead of physically moving robotic arms and tools to test arrangements, the system uses software-based virtual modeling to evaluate countless configurations, reducing the need for complex physical experimentation while improving reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs workflow optimization, collision detection, and arrangement planning without requiring extensive manual intervention. The virtual simulation self-evaluates different configurations and autonomously identifies optimal setups, reducing the operational complexity burden on users while maintaining high procedural reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If physical equipment is arranged based on trial and error, then adaptability to different procedures is maintained, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary virtual simulation and optimization for each specific surgical procedure before physical setup. By pre-planning the arrangement of robotic arms and tools in the virtual environment based on procedure-specific requirements, the system maintains adaptability to different procedures while dramatically reducing the time needed for physical setup compared to trial-and-error methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts virtual simulations to match specific procedural requirements by importing procedure-specific parameters and constraints. This allows the same virtual simulation framework to efficiently optimize arrangements for different surgical procedures, maintaining versatility while reducing setup time through pre-computation.
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AI summary
A virtual operating room (OR) is generated that includes virtual surgical equipment based on existing OR models and existing equipment models. Sensor feedback is received that defines a physical OR having physical equipment, the physical equipment including a surgical robotic system within the physical OR. The virtual OR and the virtual surgical equipment is updated based on the sensor feedback. A layout of the virtual surgical equipment is optimized in the virtual OR. The virtual OR and the virtual surgical equipment are rendered on a display.