Automatic event handling during robot assisted eye surgery

Medical eye surgery robots are supporting the surgery process in many ways, they primarily can help the surgeon during surgery procedure, they can provide valuable status information about the environment, about the patient and about the forthcoming steps of the surgical process, and by definition they need to protect the patient too. During eye surgery we can differentiate phases of the process and we can identify generic workflows and states for each type of treatments. Transitions between the states or between the workflow steps are triggered by events. Such events can be initiated by any of the surgery the medical expert, by the environment or patient status parameters, or by any components of the system. We have developed an Event handling framework for robot surgery devices. We have evaluated our solution using two different eye surgery robot device. In this paper we are providing information about the framework, its implementations, and detail some evaluation results.