Bone Drilling Force Control of Surgical Robot Based on Rigid-Soft Coupling Model and Particle Swarm Optimization
XIA Guangming1, JIANG Zifeng1, DAI Yu1, WANG Jinggang1, XUE Yuan2, ZAHNG Jianxun1
1. Institute of Robotics & Automatic Information System, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China; 2. Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
夏光明, 姜子丰, 代煜, 王景港, 雪原, 张建勋. 基于刚软耦合模型和粒子群优化的手术机器人骨钻削力控制[J]. 机器人, 2023, 45(1): 28-37.DOI: 10.13973/j.cnki.robot.210357.
XIA Guangming, JIANG Zifeng, DAI Yu, WANG Jinggang, XUE Yuan, ZAHNG Jianxun. Bone Drilling Force Control of Surgical Robot Based on Rigid-Soft Coupling Model and Particle Swarm Optimization. ROBOT, 2023, 45(1): 28-37. DOI: 10.13973/j.cnki.robot.210357.
Abstract:The spine vertebral body is of multi-layer composite structure and is prone to thermal damage, so the surgical robot should accurately control its axial drilling force when drilling the bone tissue of the pedicle. However, the control precision of general-purpose force controllers is insufficient for surgical safety due to the individual differences among different persons and the rigid-soft coupling structure composed of spine and soft tissue. This paper aims to improve the accuracy of the axial drilling force control. Firstly, a rigid-soft coupling model of the spine-soft-tissue system is established based on mass, spring, and Maxwell viscoelastic element. Then, the model parameters are calibrated based on the measured force data from a stress relaxation experiment on the isolated sheep spine. The axial feed rate of the bone drilling is adjusted by a PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller. And the controller parameters are tuned by the standard particle swarm algorithm with dynamic weights, based on the transfer function of the calibrated rigid-soft coupling model. Finally, the simulation proves that the closed-loop control system is of good dynamic performance and robustness. Results of the drilling force control experiment on the isolated sheep spine show that, the steady-state error of the step force response of the axial drilling force is less than 0.15 N, the relative force control error is less than 3%, and in fact without any noticeable overshoot. The sinusoidal force response amplitude is attenuated to -3 dB at a frequency of 3.49 rad/s, which means that the closed-loop control system has a wide enough control bandwidth. The force control accuracy and control bandwidth of the proposed method can meet the force tracking requirements of the surgical robot when performing bone drilling, and the safety of the automatic bone drilling process is improved.
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