Magnetic tracking technologies have a promising application in detecting the real-time position andattitude of a capsule endoscope.However,most of them need to measure the magnetic moment of a permanentmagnet(PM)embed...Magnetic tracking technologies have a promising application in detecting the real-time position andattitude of a capsule endoscope.However,most of them need to measure the magnetic moment of a permanentmagnet(PM)embedded in the capsule accurately in advance,which can cause inconvenience to practical application.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a magnetic tracking system with the capability of measuring themagnetic moment of the PM automatically.The system is constructed based on a 4×4 magnetic sensor array,whose sensing data is analyzed to determine the magnetic moment by referring to a magnetic dipole model.Withthe determined magnetic moment,a method of fusing the linear calculation and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithmsis proposed to determine the 3D position and 2D attitude of the PM.The experiments verified that the proposedsystem can achieve localization errors of 0.48 mm,0.42 mm,and 0.83 mm and orientation errors of 0.66◦,0.64◦,and 0.87◦for a PM(∅10 mm×10 mm)at vertical heights of 5 cm,10 cm,and 15 cm from the magnetic sensorarray,respectively.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52275038 and 61803347)the Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Excellent Youth(No.202203021224007)+1 种基金the Key Research and Development Plan of Shanxi Province(No.201903D321164)the Opening Foundation of Shanxi Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology(No.XJZZ202101)。
文摘Magnetic tracking technologies have a promising application in detecting the real-time position andattitude of a capsule endoscope.However,most of them need to measure the magnetic moment of a permanentmagnet(PM)embedded in the capsule accurately in advance,which can cause inconvenience to practical application.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a magnetic tracking system with the capability of measuring themagnetic moment of the PM automatically.The system is constructed based on a 4×4 magnetic sensor array,whose sensing data is analyzed to determine the magnetic moment by referring to a magnetic dipole model.Withthe determined magnetic moment,a method of fusing the linear calculation and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithmsis proposed to determine the 3D position and 2D attitude of the PM.The experiments verified that the proposedsystem can achieve localization errors of 0.48 mm,0.42 mm,and 0.83 mm and orientation errors of 0.66◦,0.64◦,and 0.87◦for a PM(∅10 mm×10 mm)at vertical heights of 5 cm,10 cm,and 15 cm from the magnetic sensorarray,respectively.
