摘要:
The invention relates to a control apparatus (30) and to a method for coupling and decoupling an input device (10) with a manipulator (20), wherein the input device is designed to control the manipulator. The manipulator is moved to a position and orientation (pose 22a, b) that corresponds to the position and orientation (pose 12a, b) commanded at the input device and that lies within an input tolerance range (14), with the input device subsequently being coupled and the coupling allowing the conversion of user inputs into manipulator movements. If the manipulator leaves the working space (24) or reaches an obstacle space (28), the input device is decoupled and a user input is no longer directly converted into a manipulator movement upon decoupling. During laparoscopic interventions, the working space can thus be limited to a safe space and the intervention performed safely .