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Eye-In-Hand Uncalibrated Visual Servoing of Concentric Tube Robot

  • Kehe Zhang
  • , Xing Yang
  • , Jie Wang
  • , Shuang Song*
  • , Max Q.H. Meng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

A control strategy of uncalibrated visual servoing is proposed for a three-degree-of-freedom continuous concentric tube robot (CTR) in the paper. CTRs are widely researched in recent years for its advantages of flexibility, minimally invasive and portable medical device surgery. Compared with calibrated visual servoing control, uncalibrated visual servoing does not require CTR's accurate robot model and camera calibration parameters, while the difficulty of uncalibrated visual servoing is how to accurately estimate the Jacobian matrix of the image online. Therefore, the paper designs a control scheme of uncalibrated visual servoing for a three degree-of-freedom CTR. Kalman Filtering(KF) and Unscented Kalman Filtering(UKF) algorithms are used to estimate the Jacobian matrix of the CTR system online. A millimeter level endoscope is installed at the end of the CTR's operating arm for image acquisition, which is a an eye-in-hand visual system. The best UKF parameters for the CTR are obtained based on comparative experiments. Experiments show that the strategy of uncalibrated visual servoing based on designed UKF algorithm has a good performance in locating and tracking the target point for the CTR.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages233-238
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728172927
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Sep 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2020 - Virtual, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Duration: 28 Sep 202029 Sep 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Asahikawa, Hokkaido
Period28/09/2029/09/20

Keywords

  • concentric tube robot control strategy
  • kalman filter
  • uncalibrated vision servoing
  • unscented kalman filter

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