Title
A Handheld Master Controller for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery
Abstract
Accurate master-slave control is important for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery (RAMS). This paper presents a handheld master controller for the operation and training of RAMS. A 9-axis Inertial Measure Unit (IMU) and a micro camera are utilized to form the sensing system for the handheld controller. A new hybrid marker pattern is designed to achieve reliable visual tracking, which integrated QR codes, Aruco markers, and chessboard vertices. Real-time multi-sensor fusion is implemented to further improve the tracking accuracy. The proposed handheld controller has been verified on an in-house microsurgical robot to assess its usability and robustness. User studies were conducted based on a trajectory following task, which indicated that the proposed handheld controller had comparable performance with the Phantom Omni, demonstrating its potential applications in microsurgical robot control and training.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967774
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
handheld master controller,robot-assisted microsurgery,accurate master-slave control,RAMS,handheld controller,hybrid marker pattern,visual tracking,in-house microsurgical robot,9-axis inertial measure unit,IMU,QR codes,Aruco markers,chessboard vertices,real-time multisensor fusion,trajectory following task,Phantom Omni
Computer vision,Robot control,Control theory,Computer science,Usability,Robustness (computer science),Mobile device,Eye tracking,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Computer hardware,Robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0858
978-1-7281-4005-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dandan Zhang1727.06
Yao Guo276.23
Junhong Chen3152.36
Jindong Liu420729.44
Guang-Zhong Yang52812297.66