Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller

AbstractDuring the last decade, many ophthalmic therapeutic drugs have been clinically approved, and intraocular injection has been a common surgical intervention. Injecting drugs directly into the subretinal space is crucial to treat retinal complications effectively. Here, we report a handheld mic...

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Main Authors: Jintaek Im, Sukho Park, Cheol Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:International Journal of Optomechatronics
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15599612.2023.2299023
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description AbstractDuring the last decade, many ophthalmic therapeutic drugs have been clinically approved, and intraocular injection has been a common surgical intervention. Injecting drugs directly into the subretinal space is crucial to treat retinal complications effectively. Here, we report a handheld microinjector with two fiber-optic distance sensors and time-delay control (TDC) to mitigate nonlinear disturbances during the injection task. The conventional method exhibited a cosine error of approximately 77 μm at an angle of 45°, whereas our proposed needle reduced measurement errors to ∼6 μm. Also, TDC-based position regulation is designed to adaptively apply motor inputs by estimating disturbances during the handheld task and achieving fast system responses with minor control errors. Phantom studies show a maximum reduction of 26.5% in root-mean-square error (RMSE) compared to the existing approach. Moreover, ex-vivo experiments demonstrated superior and robust injection performance, resulting in an injection RMSE of 10.3 μm.
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spelling doaj.art-de3ec59117b54fc184973b5f3d3dac202023-12-29T14:05:35ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Optomechatronics1559-96121559-96202024-12-0118110.1080/15599612.2023.2299023Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controllerJintaek Im0Sukho Park1Cheol Song2Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of KoreaAbstractDuring the last decade, many ophthalmic therapeutic drugs have been clinically approved, and intraocular injection has been a common surgical intervention. Injecting drugs directly into the subretinal space is crucial to treat retinal complications effectively. Here, we report a handheld microinjector with two fiber-optic distance sensors and time-delay control (TDC) to mitigate nonlinear disturbances during the injection task. The conventional method exhibited a cosine error of approximately 77 μm at an angle of 45°, whereas our proposed needle reduced measurement errors to ∼6 μm. Also, TDC-based position regulation is designed to adaptively apply motor inputs by estimating disturbances during the handheld task and achieving fast system responses with minor control errors. Phantom studies show a maximum reduction of 26.5% in root-mean-square error (RMSE) compared to the existing approach. Moreover, ex-vivo experiments demonstrated superior and robust injection performance, resulting in an injection RMSE of 10.3 μm.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15599612.2023.2299023Fiber-optic interferometric sensorneedle-integrated distance sensorhandheld microinjectortime-delay control (TDC)
spellingShingle Jintaek Im
Sukho Park
Cheol Song
Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
International Journal of Optomechatronics
Fiber-optic interferometric sensor
needle-integrated distance sensor
handheld microinjector
time-delay control (TDC)
title Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
title_full Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
title_fullStr Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
title_full_unstemmed Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
title_short Handheld motorized injection system with fiber-optic distance sensors and adaptive time-delay controller
title_sort handheld motorized injection system with fiber optic distance sensors and adaptive time delay controller
topic Fiber-optic interferometric sensor
needle-integrated distance sensor
handheld microinjector
time-delay control (TDC)
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15599612.2023.2299023
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