Engineering

Volume 5, Issue 10 (October 2013)

ISSN Print: 1947-3931   ISSN Online: 1947-394X

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Control Strategy of Vibrational Capsubot in Viscoelastic Environment

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B087    3,396 Downloads   4,634 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

Active capsule endoscopy is becoming a research hotspot in recent years. We design an active capsule robot (capsubot) with the vibrational mode. The internal force-static friction control strategy which is used in the capsubot is effective in rigid environment but not in viscoelastic environment. A particular viscoelastic material whose parameters are confirmed is set to the viscoelastic environment. We suppose that it is a periodic damped oscillation system when the capsubot make a free vibration in the environment. We propose a new control strategy whose principle is similar to a swing in the environment. The simulation results show that the new strategy is effective.

 

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Zhang, C. , Tan, R. , Liu, H. and Li, H. (2013) Control Strategy of Vibrational Capsubot in Viscoelastic Environment. Engineering, 5, 424-428. doi: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B087.

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