{"title":"Development of a Novel Leader Device with Haptic Feedback for Vascular Interventional Surgery","authors":"Xiaoliang Jin, Ai-Guon Song, Lifeng Zhu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216120","url":null,"abstract":"Robot-assisted vascular interventional surgery has become a hot topic in the field of medical science and engineering. In recent years, the research of robot-assisted vascular interventional surgery has achieved promising results. However, improving the human-robot collaboration performance during the surgery is still a major challenge. To address this challenge, a novel leader device was designed and developed. In detail, the structural design of the leader device fully considers ergonomic design, which can greatly reduce the operating difficulty for surgeons while allowing them to take advantage of their traditional surgical experience. The leader device can recognize the surgeon’s operational behaviors, mainly including pushing, pulling, and rotating. Besides, haptic feedback function is realized and provided during the operation, which can help the surgeon accurately grasp the dynamics of the operation and effectively improve the presence and safety of the operation. To verify the effectiveness of the haptic feedback of the leader device, a verification experiment was conducted between the electric current and the force/torque when the angle between the operating rod and the rhombus structure was 30 degrees. The results indicated that the developed leader device can provide the haptic feedback to the surgeon. The leader device with haptic feedback has the potential to improve the human-robot collaboration performance during the operation.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115547823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Honghan Zhang, Yabo Wang, Juan Li, Yinsong Qu, Zheping Yan
{"title":"Research on Dynamic Planning Method for Safe Path of UUV in Complex Fishing Net Deployed Waters","authors":"Honghan Zhang, Yabo Wang, Juan Li, Yinsong Qu, Zheping Yan","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216068","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the problem of long path planning time and poor maneuverability in avoiding close-range fishing nets in the complex fishing net deployment area of UUV in the near sea, this paper proposes a fusion algorithm combining improved RRT algorithm and improved DWA algorithm. In the sampling stage, the sampling point is adaptively moved a certain distance toward the task point to improve the directionality of the tree growth. When the expansion encounters obstacles, the algorithm will use steering and reselection strategies to solve the problems of blindness and the long path planning time of the RRT algorithm. After obtaining the global path, the sub-goal point for local dynamic path planning is adaptively selected according to the smoothness of the path to reduce the turning radius. In terms of dynamic obstacle avoidance, a fishing net obstacle avoidance strategy is added to the DWA algorithm to improve UUV ability to avoid close-range fishing nets. Simulation results show that the algorithm can plan a global path in a short time in complex sea areas and has a fast response speed to close-range fishing nets, making effective obstacle avoidance decisions and proving the effectiveness and practicability of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116042036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on bearing-only target tracking of UUV under underwater strong noise disturbance","authors":"Aodi You, Hongjian Wang, Hongzhi Liu, Mengwei Zhangsun, Yanbin Zhang, Ridong Jin","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215524","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problem of bearing-only target tracking (BOTT) for UUVs in complex and dynamic ocean environments, the system is susceptible to interference from strong noise. This interference can lead to large noise covariance, poor tracking accuracy, and even filter divergence. An algorithm based on robust adaptive cubature Kalman filter (RACKF) is proposed. The algorithm consists of a noise statistics estimator (NSE) and a cubature Kalman filter (CKF). To ensure the robustness of the NSE, the paper builds a fault-tolerant NSE consisting of an unbiased NSE and a biased NSE. The simulation results show that the algorithm improves the filtering accuracy and robustness under the condition of underwater strong noise disturbance, which proves the effectiveness of the algorithm proposed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116547795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location Method of GNSS Jamming Source Based on TDOA Passive Detection Technology","authors":"Jian Zhang, Ming-Ming Cheng, Feng Liu, Huisen Liu, Yuekuan Xin","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215554","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problem of jamming source location in satellite navigation system, this paper introduces a method of GNSS jamming source location based on TDOA passive detection technology, analyzes the influence of station location error and array form on jamming source location accuracy, and presents an error processing method which is easy to realize in engineering. By deriving the error transfer equation of TDOA, introducing the error deterioration factor and relative positioning factor as the system performance analysis index, the effect of $alpha-beta$ filtering on positioning error is given through simulation.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122769391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Humanoid Reading System with Voice Lip Synchronization","authors":"Wangcheng Chen, Y. Guan, Wenhao Chen, Mingcong Wang, Weichun Xie, Junyu Xie","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215958","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing use of service robots in people’s daily lives, there is a growing expectation that robots not only perform service tasks independently but also play a role in education. To improve the interactive capabilities and functionality of humanoid robots, we have developed a humanoid robot reading system that can read books. The system comprises two main modules: A document character recognition module and a lip synchronization reading module. The document character recognition module detects and recognizes the captured document images from the cameras and extracts the text from the image, and the lip synchronized reading module outputs the reading text by synchronizing voice and lip movements. Our team has independently developed a humanoid robot that has successfully implemented this system.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122473434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fusion-based Path Planning for Near Seabed Autonomous Underwater Vehicles","authors":"Tianlong Yang, Yanhui Wei, Yongkang Hou, Tian Yu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216089","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have played a huge role in deep-sea operations and exploration. However, with the limited energy, AUV faces obstacles in complex underwater environments such as seamounts and trenches during near bottom operations. Therefore, planning the reasonable and efficient path is one of the important conditions for AUV to achieve underwater operations[1]. A new path planning method that combines improved RRT strategy and dynamic window analysis (DWA) is proposed to address the impact of underwater hydrodynamic forces and complex underwater environments on AUV during near bottom navigation. This proposed path planner has the following two advantages: one is to improve the global planning performance compared with the traditional RRT algorithm, and the other is to guarantee the real-time local planning capability via the DWA method. The superior performance of the developed planning algorithm is verified in the numerical examples.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122888177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baseline Load Estimation for Demand Response Based on Blockchain and Neural Networks","authors":"Lei Xi, Chen Wang, T. Zheng, Kaifeng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215805","url":null,"abstract":"With the large-scale integration of distributed new energy to the power grid, the power system increasingly relies on demand response to solve the needs of power grid regulation. In demand response, how to estimate the baseline load of response resources is of great significance. With the deepening of baseline load research, the traditional baseline load estimation methods are becoming more and more difficult to apply. To this end, this paper proposes a solution to the shortcomings of traditional methods using blockchain combined with private data. Firstly, traditional baseline load estimation is not effective due to the lack of a large amount of private data. The neural network combined with private data can be used to obtain a high-precision baseline load. Secondly, to address the trust issues caused by the use of private data, the blockchain is used for encrypted storage and regular spot checks are conducted on the owners to achieve mutual trust between the two parties involved. Finally, through the experimental simulation of chemical plants and electric vehicles, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114576450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed M. M. Almassri, K. Koyanagi, C. Wada, Keiichi Horio, W.Z.W. Hasan
{"title":"Development of a Robotic Hand Glove System for Secure Grasp with AI Wireless Sensor Data","authors":"Ahmed M. M. Almassri, K. Koyanagi, C. Wada, Keiichi Horio, W.Z.W. Hasan","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215914","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic Hand glove is one of the most commonly used technique in the rehabilitation systems. In this paper, we developed a robotic hand system with a proposed sensing mechanism-based AI algorithm, which can acquire grasping forces from human fingers. It is composed of five low-cost force sensors attached to the glove’s fingertips and wireless data logger. Several experiments including grasping a plastic bottle and squeezing a tennis ball are implemented to verify the efficiency of the proposed system using the developed glove. As a result, it accurately estimates the forces applied by each finger with the aim of achieving a secure grasp comparison with conventional methods.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122195979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closed-Loop Simulation Test Method for Autonomous Vehicles Based on Adversarial Scenarios","authors":"Xiaokun Zheng, Huawei Liang, Zhiyuan Li, Chen Hua, Qiong Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10215980","url":null,"abstract":"Using simulation technology to verify the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a critical aspect of the development of autonomous driving technology. The primary objective is to reduce the time and cost of AV testing while enhancing testing efficiency. In this study, we propose a closed-loop simulation test method for AVs based on an adversarial scenario generation process. A comprehensive closed-loop simulation system was established, incorporating Simulink, Prescan, Carsim, and hardware-in-the-loop systems.To swiftly identify challenging test scenarios, we formulated an optimization model for safety evaluation, which is based on an improved driving safety field model. We employed the genetic algorithm to effectively solve this optimization problem, allowing for the rapid generation of difficult scenarios.Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can effectively generate challenging scenarios, enabling the swift confirmation of the safety performance boundaries of the system under test. This approach significantly improves the overall testing efficiency and provides valuable insights for the advancement of autonomous driving technologies.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129160664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, Characterization, and Optimization of the Soft Bellows Pneumatic Actuator","authors":"Liang Liang, Lijun Meng, Huichen Ma","doi":"10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA57826.2023.10216143","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the research progress of soft actuators has been rapid in robotics research community. To expand the application of soft bellows pneumatic actuators, we fabricated a bidirectionally bent soft bellows actuator. Five soft actuator samples were fabricated by changing the geometry and material of the actuator. Under the driving pressure of 70 kPa, the maximum bending angle and the maximum bending output force are 92.9° and 2.2 N, respectively. In addition, a bending angle numerical model and a bending force finite element model are established to further characterize the motion characteristics of the soft actuator. Experimental, numerical, and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the model for characterizing the characteristics of soft actuators. A verified numerical model and a finite element model are used to construct the meta-model, and multi-objective optimization is performed to optimize the structural parameters of the soft bellows actuator. After executing the particle swarm optimization algorithm, Pareto optimal solution is obtained, indicating that the bending angle and the output force cannot be optimized at the same time, and the appropriate scheme needs to be selected according to the actual needs. The result shows that the initial design of the soft bellows actuator can be improved according to the Pareto optimal solution in terms of bending angle and output force.","PeriodicalId":151364,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129315437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}