Abstract:
Provided is a manipulator system including: a flexible inserted portion; a manipulator that has a joint portion that is driven at the distal end of the inserted portion; a drive portion that drives the joint portion on the basal-end side of the inserted portion; a shape estimating portion that estimates the shape of the inserted portion; and a control portion that controls the drive portion based on the shape of the estimated inserted portion, wherein the shape estimating portion is provided with detection targets that are arranged, with spaces therebetween, in the inserted portion in the longitudinal direction thereof, a position detection portion that detects three-dimensional positions of the detection targets, and a shape calculating portion that calculates, on the basis of the three-dimensional positions of the detected detection targets, the shape of the inserted portion by dividing the inserted portion into sections in the longitudinal direction thereof.
Abstract:
An electric endoscope control device that changes a bending angle of a bending section of an endoscope by driving a motor according to an amount of manipulation, the electric endoscope control device includes: a storage that stores, for different types of operation state, a plurality of tables that each show the relationship between the amount of manipulation and the rotation angle of the motor, the electric endoscope control device configured to: perform an operation-state determining that determines the operation state of the bending section of the endoscope; and perform a drive-signal generating that generates a drive signal for the motor on a basis of one of the tables, which are stored in the storage, depending on the determined operation state.
Abstract:
A method of calibrating a manipulator including a joint portion, a drive unit that generates a driving force for driving the joint portion, and a driving force transmission member that is inserted into a tubular member and transmits the driving force generated from the drive unit to the joint portion includes: an arrangement step of arranging the manipulator in a usable state; a load-measuring step of issuing an operation command based on a predetermined calibrating drive pattern to the drive unit and measuring a load generated in the manipulator at that time; and a control parameter-setting step of setting a main-driving control parameter based on the load measured in the load-measuring step.
Abstract:
A manipulator and manipulator system in which a dynamic surplus is rapidly removed and a moving part actuates rapidly in association with the operation of an operating part. The manipulator includes an operating part operated by an operator, a moving part operated by the operating part, a transmitting part for coupling the operating part to the moving part to transmit driving force of the operating part to the moving part, a transmission compensating part for making up for a dynamic surplus occurring in the transmitting part in association with the operation of the operating part, an input part for acquiring a state of at least one of the operating, moving and transmitting part, and a control unit for controlling the transmission compensating part depending on the state acquired by the input part.
Abstract:
An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including an elongated portion in which an imaging optical system is arranged; an arm supporting the endoscope; and a unit capable of changing a field-of-view direction of the endoscope, wherein each library data stored in a storage includes a parameter related to relative position and attitude between the imaging optical system and an observation object, the parameter includes a first parameter or a second parameter, the first parameter determined by a sum of an inclination of a longitudinal axis of the elongated portion and an amount of curvature of the changing unit on base coordinates, the first parameter related to an orientation of the imaging optical system on the base coordinates, the second parameter indicating an orientation of the imaging optical system as viewed from a coordinate of the observation object, and the unit or the arm based on the library data is controlled.
Abstract:
A medical manipulator system including: a manipulator with a flexible insertion portion, a movable part at a distal end of the insertion portion, a detachable drive unit at a proximal end of the insertion portion, and a pair of tension transmission members transmitting a driving force generated in the drive unit to move the movable part; an input unit inputting an operation command for the manipulator; and a control unit controlling the drive unit based on the input operation command, the drive unit having a displacement sensor detecting displacement direction and amount of the tension transmission members and a tension-difference sensor detecting a tension difference between the tension transmission members, the control unit has a storage unit storing characteristics of the tension transmission members and a setting unit setting a control parameter for controlling the drive unit based on the characteristics and the detected tension difference, displacement amount and direction.
Abstract:
A manipulator includes an elongated main unit, a bending portion, and a distal end portion that are disposed in this order from a basal end; a plurality of main bending mechanisms having main linear members that extend from the distal end portion to the main unit, main motive-power generating portions), and main motive-power transmitting portions that transmit motive powers generated by the main motive-power generating portions to the main linear members in the form of linear motions in the longitudinal direction; a plurality of auxiliary bending mechanisms that are provided so as to form pairs with the respective main bending mechanisms and parallel thereto and that exert a pressing force and a tensile force on the distal end portion; and switching portions that selectively actuate either the main bending mechanisms or the auxiliary bending mechanisms, which are paired.
Abstract:
An endoscope system includes: an endoscope acquiring a captured image; and a processor configured to: detect a region of interest in the captured image; select a portion of the captured image as a display area and generate an observation image from the display area; and cooperatively execute digital tracking processing and physical tracking processing. The digital tracking processing is processing in which a first target region in the display area is made to track the region of interest by changing a position of the display area in the captured image. The physical tracking processing is processing in which a second target region in the captured image is made to track the region of interest by moving a visual field of the endoscope. The processor is configured to stop the digital tracking processing when the first target region reaches the region of interest, and execute only the physical tracking processing thereafter.
Abstract:
A medical manipulator system includes: an elongated manipulator that has an insertion portion; a shape sensor that is provided so as to be movable along the longitudinal direction of a path in which the manipulator is to be disposed and that detects shape information of the path at respective positions; a shape estimating unit that is configured to estimate a curved shape of the manipulator on the basis of the shape information detected by the shape sensor and longitudinal-direction position information of the shape sensor in the path; and a controller that is configured to control the manipulator on a basis of the curved shape of the manipulator estimated by the shape estimating unit.
Abstract:
A flexible-manipulator control device that controls, according to a control parameter, a drive of a flexible manipulator having a movable part at a distal end of a flexible insertion portion to be inserted into the body and having, at a proximal end thereof, the drive for driving the movable part, includes: a physical-information storage unit that stores physical information of a patient into which the insertion portion is inserted; a position-information input unit to which is input position information of the movable part in a state in which it is inserted into the patient; and a parameter adjustment unit that adjusts the control parameter on the basis of the physical information stored in the physical-information storage unit and the position information input to the position-information input unit.