ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM HAVING A COMMUNICATION NETWORK OF A RING TOPOLOGY AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH

A robotic surgical system is disclosed having a ring network for communicating information between a controller and nodes of one or more robotic arms. A communications protocol is described by which synchronous and asynchronous information can be communicated to and from the nodes of the robotic arm...

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Hauptverfasser: WU, Qiong, GRAVES, Philip, L, ZIETLOW, Klaus, R, WIEDRICK, Roth, K
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A robotic surgical system is disclosed having a ring network for communicating information between a controller and nodes of one or more robotic arms. A communications protocol is described by which synchronous and asynchronous information can be communicated to and from the nodes of the robotic arms. Also disclosed are various aspects of a physical layer that can be used with the network.