Title
Gain-Scheduling Control Of Teleoperation Systems Interacting With Soft Tissues
Abstract
Surgical teleoperation systems are being increasingly deployed recently. There are, however, some unsolved issues such as nonlinear characteristics of the interaction between the slave robot and soft tissues and difficulty in employing force sensors in the surgical end-effectors of the slave. These issues make it difficult to generalize any approach to develop a control for the system. This paper addresses these issues by proposing a H-infinity suboptimal controller preserving robust stability and performance. The environment, i.e., soft tissues, is characterized with the nonlinear Hunt-Crossley model. This nonlinear characteristics of soft tissues are expressed with an affine combination of linear models within a predefined parameter polytope. For this linear parameter-varying system, a gain-scheduling control scheme is employed to design a suboptimal controller while guaranteeing its stability. To avoid using any force measurement in slave, we used position-position (PP) control architecture. The developed gain-scheduling control is validated with quantitative experimental results. The developed gain-scheduling PP control scheme shows good tracking capacity and high transparency for varied experimental conditions. Error of the transmitted impedance is significantly lower compared with other conventional control schemes for frequencies less than 2 Hz, which is frequently recommended for surgical teleoperation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIE.2012.2189537
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gain-scheduling control, robotic surgery, teleoperation, transparency
Teleoperation,Control theory,Nonlinear system,Affine combination,Scheduling (computing),Gain scheduling,Linear model,Control theory,Control engineering,Engineering,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
3
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.66
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jang Ho Cho1326.57
Hyoung Il Son219017.74
Dong Gun Lee35310.43
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee46212.26
Doo Yong Lee525234.35