Virtual Reality System for Robotic Surgical Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Robotic surgical systems require significant training and are costly to develop due to the complexity of operating and designing these systems, with existing methods relying on physical prototypes that are time-consuming and expensive to test and iterate.
Innovation Solution
A virtual reality system that generates a virtual robotic surgical environment, allowing users to train, simulate, and collaborate through a virtual reality processor, head-mounted display, and handheld controllers, which can interface with real operating rooms to provide immersive and interactive training and design simulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physical prototypes are used for testing and training robotic surgical systems, then realistic simulation is achieved, but development time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the robotic surgical system including virtual robotic arms, surgical instruments, and operating room environment. This virtual replica allows realistic simulation and training without requiring physical prototypes, thereby reducing development time and costs while maintaining simulation fidelity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical physical prototype system with a computer-based virtual reality system. The virtual environment uses software rendering and digital models instead of physical mechanical components, enabling faster iteration and testing while eliminating the need for costly physical prototyping.
2Reliability
If physical prototypes are used for testing robotic surgical systems, then hardware improvements can be validated, but development costs increase cumulatively
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual reality system creates digital replicas of hardware components including robotic arms and surgical instruments. These virtual copies can be used to validate hardware designs and improvements before committing to physical manufacturing, thereby reducing cumulative development costs while maintaining validation reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables preliminary testing and validation of hardware designs in the virtual environment before physical manufacturing. Design iterations can be tested, evaluated, and optimized in the virtual prototype stage, preventing costly mistakes in physical manufacturing and reducing overall development costs.
3Ease of operation
If extensive training with physical robotic surgical systems is provided, then surgical proficiency is improved, but training costs and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual training environment that replicates the robotic surgical system and operating room. Surgeons can train extensively in this virtual copy without consuming physical resources, allowing repeated practice and skill development at minimal cost while maintaining proficiency improvement.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual reality system enables preliminary training before surgeons operate on actual patients or with expensive physical systems. Trainees can perform repeated practice procedures, make mistakes, and learn in the virtual environment without consuming physical resources or risking patient safety, thereby reducing overall training costs.
Data Source
AI summary
A virtual reality system may generate a virtual robotic surgical environment using a client application, where the virtual robotic surgical environment includes at least one virtual robotic component. In response to a user input to move the at least one virtual robotic component in the virtual robotic surgical environment, the system may pass status information regarding the at least one virtual robotic component from the client application to a server application, generate an actuation command based on the user input and the status information using the server application, pass the actuation command from the server application to the client application, and move the at least one virtual robotic component based on the actuation command. The client application and the server application may be run on a shared processor device, or on separate processor devices.