Haptic virtual surgery simulation system under field programmable analogue array-based hybrid control.

Journal: Scientific reports
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Abstract

In this paper, a bilateral haptic virtual surgery simulation system under a hybrid controller was studied. An analogue controller realized by a field programmable analogue array (FPAA) was paralleled in the operator robot side, which reduced the impact of controller discretisation on the system. A system stability conditions under hybrid control with multiple-operators were deduced. The stability analysis indicates that the addition of analogue derivative term widens the range of haptic controls gains that satisfy the multiple-users' stability conditions. Finally, the human's performance of a stiffness discrimination task was studied in an independently developed minimally invasive surgical (MIS) platform. The experiment results show that, human operators under the hybrid controller achieve the highest task success rates.

Authors

  • Sun Ru
    School of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, Jiangsu, China.
  • Ting Yang
    Northeastern University, Department of Chemistry, CHINA.
  • Liang Zhang
  • Lin Wang
    Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
  • Yili Fu
    State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
  • Mahdi Tavakoli
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.