Phu Bao Nguyen1, Byungjeon Kang2, D M Bappy2, Eunpyo Choi1, Sukho Park3, Seong Young Ko1, Jong-Oh Park4, Chang-Sei Kim5. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea. 2. Medical Microrobot Center, Robot Research Initiative, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea. 3. Department of Robotics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, 42988, South Korea. 4. School of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea. jop@jnu.ac.kr. 5. School of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea. ckim@jnu.ac.kr.
Abstract
PURPOSE: As a promising intravascular therapeutic approach for autonomous catheterization, especially for thrombosis treatment, a microrobot or robotic catheter driven by an external electromagnetic actuation system has been recently investigated. However, the three-dimensional (3D) real-time position and orientation tracking of the microrobot remains a challenge for precise feedback control in clinical applications owing to the micro-size of the microrobot geometry in vessels, along with bifurcation and vulnerability. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a 3D posture recognition method for the unmanned microrobotic surgery driven by an external electromagnetic actuator system. METHODS: We propose a real-time position and spatial orientation tracking method for a millimeter-sized intravascular object or microrobot using a principal component analysis algorithm and an X-ray reconstruction. The suggested algorithm was implemented to an actual controllable wireless microrobot system composed of a bullet-shaped object, a biplane X-ray imaging device, and an electromagnetic actuation system. Numerical computations and experiments were conducted for the performance verification. RESULTS: The experimental results showed a good performance of the implemented system with tracking errors less than 0.4 mm in position and 2° in orientation. The proposed tracking technique accomplished a fast processing time, ~ 0.125 ms/frame, and high-precision recognition of the micro-sized object. CONCLUSIONS: Since the suggested method does not require pre-information of the object geometry in the human body for its 3D shape and position recognition, it could be applied to various elliptical shapes of the microrobot system with computation time efficacy and recognition accuracy. Hence, the method can be used for therapeutic millimeter- or micron-sized manipulator recognition in vascular, as well as implanted objects in the human body.
PURPOSE: As a promising intravascular therapeutic approach for autonomous catheterization, especially for thrombosis treatment, a microrobot or robotic catheter driven by an external electromagnetic actuation system has been recently investigated. However, the three-dimensional (3D) real-time position and orientation tracking of the microrobot remains a challenge for precise feedback control in clinical applications owing to the micro-size of the microrobot geometry in vessels, along with bifurcation and vulnerability. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a 3D posture recognition method for the unmanned microrobotic surgery driven by an external electromagnetic actuator system. METHODS: We propose a real-time position and spatial orientation tracking method for a millimeter-sized intravascular object or microrobot using a principal component analysis algorithm and an X-ray reconstruction. The suggested algorithm was implemented to an actual controllable wireless microrobot system composed of a bullet-shaped object, a biplane X-ray imaging device, and an electromagnetic actuation system. Numerical computations and experiments were conducted for the performance verification. RESULTS: The experimental results showed a good performance of the implemented system with tracking errors less than 0.4 mm in position and 2° in orientation. The proposed tracking technique accomplished a fast processing time, ~ 0.125 ms/frame, and high-precision recognition of the micro-sized object. CONCLUSIONS: Since the suggested method does not require pre-information of the object geometry in the human body for its 3D shape and position recognition, it could be applied to various elliptical shapes of the microrobot system with computation time efficacy and recognition accuracy. Hence, the method can be used for therapeutic millimeter- or micron-sized manipulator recognition in vascular, as well as implanted objects in the human body.
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Electromagnetic actuation system; Intravascular microrobot; Principal component analysis; Real-time 3D posture recognition; X-ray reconstruction
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