Vibration control of Bilateral Nonlinear Telesurgical System for Flexible Link Slave Robot

Yaryan, Mohadese; Naraghi, Mahyar; Rezaei, Seyed Mehdi; Zareinejad, Mohammad; Ghafarirad, Hamed

doi:10.22041/ijbme.2013.13130

Vibration control of Bilateral Nonlinear Telesurgical System for Flexible Link Slave Robot

Document Type : Full Research Paper

Authors

Mohadese Yaryan ¹

Mahyar Naraghi ²

Seyed Mehdi Rezaei ³

Mohammad Zareinejad ²

Hamed Ghafarirad ⁴

¹ M.Sc, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

³ Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

⁴ Ph.D Student, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

https://doi.org/10.22041/ijbme.2013.13130

Abstract

This paper addresses a new control scheme for bilateral telesurgical system with flexible links surgical robot. In this regard, hybrid structure of feedback and feedforward controller is suggested for flexible slave robot. This approach utilizes capability of Input Shaping (IS) as feedforward controller to reduce vibration at robot’s end tip and the feedback controller based on collocated Proportional-Derivative (PD) for control rigid body motion of the system. Stability of closed loop input shaper for nonlinear systems is discussed for the first time in this article. The stability conditions for overall system with constant communication time delay are derived using lyapunov method. Due to the independence of the system parameters, combination of these controllers results stability robustness to parameter uncertainties. Moreover, It is shown that reshaped master command to slave’s controller improves tracking performance in the presence of robot flexibility. Simulation results are used to verify the main theoretical points of this paper and demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed control framework in terms of input tracking and vibration suppression.

Keywords

Bilateral Telesurgical Robotics

Flexible Surgical Robots

Input shaping-PD controller

Time delayed communication

Vibration control in flexible structure

Subjects

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