Keith P. Laby,Robert M. Ohline,Christoph M. Pistor,Charles E. Swinehart,Bruce R. Woodley,Amir Belson
申请号：
US15660828
公开号：
US20170319049A1
申请日:
2017.07.26
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention relates, generally, to controlling a steerable instrument having an elongate body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for sensing the shape of a steerable instrument and controlling the steerable instrument in response to a control signal from a user input device and a shape signal corresponding to the sensed shape of at least a portion of the steerable instrument. The present invention also relates to a system for sensing the shape of a flexible instrument with an optical shape sensor.
