Robot-assisted surgery has become an indispensable component in modern neurosurgical procedures.However,existing registration methods for neurosurgical robots often rely on high-end hardware and involve prolonged or u...Robot-assisted surgery has become an indispensable component in modern neurosurgical procedures.However,existing registration methods for neurosurgical robots often rely on high-end hardware and involve prolonged or unstable registration times,limiting their applicability in dynamic and time-sensitive intraoperative settings.This paper proposes a novel fully automatic monocular-based registration and real-time tracking method.First,dedicated fiducials are designed,and an automatic preoperative and intraoperative detection method for these fiducials is introduced.Second,a geometric representation of the fiducials is constructed based on a 2D KD-Tree.Through a two-stage optimization process,the depth of 2D fiducials is estimated,and 2D-3D correspondences are established to achieve monocular registration.This approach enables fully automatic intraoperative registration using only a single optical camera.Finally,a six-degree-of-freedom visual servo control strategy inspired by the mass-spring-damper system is proposed.By integrating artificial potential field and admittance control,the strategy ensures real-time responsiveness and stable tracking.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a registration time of 0.23 s per instance with an average error of 0.58 mm.Additionally,the motion performance of the control strategy has been validated.Preliminary experiments verify the effectiveness of MonoTracker in dynamic tracking scenarios.This method holds promise for enhancing the adaptability of neurosurgical robots and offers significant clinical application potential.展开更多
The control system of Hefei Light Source II(HLS-Ⅱ) is a distributed system based on the experimental physics and industrial control system(EPICS). It is necessary to maintain the central configuration files for the e...The control system of Hefei Light Source II(HLS-Ⅱ) is a distributed system based on the experimental physics and industrial control system(EPICS). It is necessary to maintain the central configuration files for the existing archiving system. When the process variables in the control system are added, removed, or updated, the configuration files must be manually modified to maintain consistency with the control system. This paper presents a new method for data archiving, which realizes the automatic configuration of the archiving parameters. The system uses microservice architecture to integrate the EPICS Archiver Appliance and Rec Sync. In this way, the system can collect all the archived meta-configuration from the distributed input/output controllers and enter them into the EPICS Archiver Appliance automatically. Furthermore, we also developed a web-based GUI to provide automatic visualization of real-time and historical data. At present,this system is under commissioning at HLS-Ⅱ. The results indicate that the new archiving system is reliable and convenient to operate. The operation mode without maintenance is valuable for large-scale scientific facilities.展开更多
An improved method with better selection capability using a single camera was presented in comparison with previous method. To improve performance, two methods were applied to landmark selection in an unfamiliar indoo...An improved method with better selection capability using a single camera was presented in comparison with previous method. To improve performance, two methods were applied to landmark selection in an unfamiliar indoor environment. First, a modified visual attention method was proposed to automatically select a candidate region as a more useful landmark. In visual attention, candidate landmark regions were selected with different characteristics of ambient color and intensity in the image. Then, the more useful landmarks were selected by combining the candidate regions using clustering. As generally implemented, automatic landmark selection by vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) results in many useless landmarks, because the features of images are distinguished from the surrounding environment but detected repeatedly. These useless landmarks create a serious problem for the SLAM system because they complicate data association. To address this, a method was proposed in which the robot initially collected landmarks through automatic detection while traversing the entire area where the robot performed SLAM, and then, the robot selected only those landmarks that exhibited high rarity through clustering, which enhanced the system performance. Experimental results show that this method of automatic landmark selection results in selection of a high-rarity landmark. The average error of the performance of SLAM decreases 52% compared with conventional methods and the accuracy of data associations increases.展开更多
The operation efficiency of the manipulator is placed in the primary position in automatic production. This paper proposes a coordinated control strategy for joint servo and visual servo to enable timely transfer and ...The operation efficiency of the manipulator is placed in the primary position in automatic production. This paper proposes a coordinated control strategy for joint servo and visual servo to enable timely transfer and accurate gripping in the working area. Aiming at the issues of chattering and slow convergence of traditional sliding mode controller, a fast variable power reaching rate on the basis of the non-singular fast terminal sliding mode controller is proposed, which can effectively reduce the convergence time and chattering. For the purpose of addressing the problem that the traditional visual servo control method is sensitive to the environment, a visual servo controller based on integral sliding mode is proposed, to ensure the favorable positioning accuracy of the manipulator. Based on the two proposed controllers mentioned above, a coordinated control strategy is used to implement the control of the manipulator. Finally, the upper computer software is developed using the C# programming language to monitor the workstation. The feasibility of the above-mentioned method is verified through multiple simulations and experiments.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.92148206).
文摘Robot-assisted surgery has become an indispensable component in modern neurosurgical procedures.However,existing registration methods for neurosurgical robots often rely on high-end hardware and involve prolonged or unstable registration times,limiting their applicability in dynamic and time-sensitive intraoperative settings.This paper proposes a novel fully automatic monocular-based registration and real-time tracking method.First,dedicated fiducials are designed,and an automatic preoperative and intraoperative detection method for these fiducials is introduced.Second,a geometric representation of the fiducials is constructed based on a 2D KD-Tree.Through a two-stage optimization process,the depth of 2D fiducials is estimated,and 2D-3D correspondences are established to achieve monocular registration.This approach enables fully automatic intraoperative registration using only a single optical camera.Finally,a six-degree-of-freedom visual servo control strategy inspired by the mass-spring-damper system is proposed.By integrating artificial potential field and admittance control,the strategy ensures real-time responsiveness and stable tracking.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a registration time of 0.23 s per instance with an average error of 0.58 mm.Additionally,the motion performance of the control strategy has been validated.Preliminary experiments verify the effectiveness of MonoTracker in dynamic tracking scenarios.This method holds promise for enhancing the adaptability of neurosurgical robots and offers significant clinical application potential.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11375186)
文摘The control system of Hefei Light Source II(HLS-Ⅱ) is a distributed system based on the experimental physics and industrial control system(EPICS). It is necessary to maintain the central configuration files for the existing archiving system. When the process variables in the control system are added, removed, or updated, the configuration files must be manually modified to maintain consistency with the control system. This paper presents a new method for data archiving, which realizes the automatic configuration of the archiving parameters. The system uses microservice architecture to integrate the EPICS Archiver Appliance and Rec Sync. In this way, the system can collect all the archived meta-configuration from the distributed input/output controllers and enter them into the EPICS Archiver Appliance automatically. Furthermore, we also developed a web-based GUI to provide automatic visualization of real-time and historical data. At present,this system is under commissioning at HLS-Ⅱ. The results indicate that the new archiving system is reliable and convenient to operate. The operation mode without maintenance is valuable for large-scale scientific facilities.
文摘An improved method with better selection capability using a single camera was presented in comparison with previous method. To improve performance, two methods were applied to landmark selection in an unfamiliar indoor environment. First, a modified visual attention method was proposed to automatically select a candidate region as a more useful landmark. In visual attention, candidate landmark regions were selected with different characteristics of ambient color and intensity in the image. Then, the more useful landmarks were selected by combining the candidate regions using clustering. As generally implemented, automatic landmark selection by vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) results in many useless landmarks, because the features of images are distinguished from the surrounding environment but detected repeatedly. These useless landmarks create a serious problem for the SLAM system because they complicate data association. To address this, a method was proposed in which the robot initially collected landmarks through automatic detection while traversing the entire area where the robot performed SLAM, and then, the robot selected only those landmarks that exhibited high rarity through clustering, which enhanced the system performance. Experimental results show that this method of automatic landmark selection results in selection of a high-rarity landmark. The average error of the performance of SLAM decreases 52% compared with conventional methods and the accuracy of data associations increases.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62273189)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2021MF005).
文摘The operation efficiency of the manipulator is placed in the primary position in automatic production. This paper proposes a coordinated control strategy for joint servo and visual servo to enable timely transfer and accurate gripping in the working area. Aiming at the issues of chattering and slow convergence of traditional sliding mode controller, a fast variable power reaching rate on the basis of the non-singular fast terminal sliding mode controller is proposed, which can effectively reduce the convergence time and chattering. For the purpose of addressing the problem that the traditional visual servo control method is sensitive to the environment, a visual servo controller based on integral sliding mode is proposed, to ensure the favorable positioning accuracy of the manipulator. Based on the two proposed controllers mentioned above, a coordinated control strategy is used to implement the control of the manipulator. Finally, the upper computer software is developed using the C# programming language to monitor the workstation. The feasibility of the above-mentioned method is verified through multiple simulations and experiments.
