Method for Controlling an Autonomous Robot System

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This invention is a control method for an autonomous robotic surgery system that manages one or more robotic arms — some holding surgical instruments and others holding structure-recognition sensors. Before an operation begins, a central control unit receives and stores surgical plan data, converting it into robot instruction sets. During the operation, the system continuously collects real-time feedback from both the surgical instruments and the structure-recognition sensors, and automatically selects and adapts the appropriate pre-defined robot instructions on the fly to respond to what it detects in the patient's body.

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• Autonomous robotic surgery where the system adjusts instrument movements in real time based on intraoperative ultrasound or imaging feedback.
• Minimally invasive procedures such as laparoscopy, where robotic arms must dynamically avoid critical anatomical structures detected by onboard sensors.
• Pre-planned orthopedic or neurosurgical interventions where the robot adapts its trajectory if tissue or bone positioning deviates from the pre-operative plan.
• Robotic-assisted tumor resection where the control system automatically modifies cutting paths upon detecting unexpected tissue boundaries.
• Integration with patient monitoring sensors (e.g., ECG, respiratory tracking) to pause or adjust robotic motion in response to patient movement or physiological changes during surgery.

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• Increases surgical precision by continuously adapting robot movements to real-time intraoperative sensor data rather than relying solely on a static pre-operative plan.
• Reduces the risk of accidental damage to critical anatomical structures by automatically selecting safer instruction sets when the structure-recognition unit detects nearby sensitive tissue.
• Enables a higher degree of surgical autonomy, reducing the need for constant manual surgeon intervention during routine procedural steps.
• Improves adaptability to intraoperative variability such as patient movement, tissue deformation, or unexpected anatomy, which static pre-programmed systems cannot handle.
• Shortens reaction time to changing surgical conditions by automating the selection from a pre-validated library of robot instructions rather than requiring real-time manual reprogramming.

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Patent Abstract

Method for controlling at least one robot arm of a surgical system for controlling a surgical operation, by means of at least one control unit that is connected to at least one robot arm on which at least one surgical instrument is arranged, and to at least one robot arm on which at least one structure recognition unit is arranged, wherein the at least one control unit receives surgical data before the operation, stores it, and generates robot instruction data from this surgical data in order to control at least one robot arm during the operation in accordance with the robot instruction data, wherein the at least one control unit receives information from the at least one surgical instrument and the at least one structure recognition unit during the operation and, in response to this information, automatically selects from a plurality of predetermined robot instruction data and adapts the control of at least one robot arm on the basis of the modified robot instruction data.