WO2010143715A1 - 医療用制御装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a medical control apparatus that uses a treatment instrument that is inserted into a body cavity and acquires image information of a medical target portion or performs medical treatment.
- an endoscope apparatus for observing an affected part by being inserted into a body cavity.
- the insertion portion that is inserted into the body cavity in the endoscope apparatus is configured to be able to bend freely at the distal end portion so that it can move back and forth along the bend in the body cavity and to capture a location to be observed. .
- This bending mechanism has a configuration in which the tip portion is divided into a plurality of short rods and the rods are connected by a joint. Wires are individually connected to these joints, and are connected to an angle knob provided on the proximal end side. By operating this angle knob, the degree of pulling of the wire is adjusted and can be bent freely.
- a sensor for detecting the amount of change (degree of bending) of the insertion portion is provided, and the bending drive unit is passively controlled from the detected amount of change.
- a potentiometer and an encoder are used to determine a control amount of the bending operation in the bending drive unit based on the detected change amount and an instruction input by a switch (angle knob).
- JP 2005-137701 A Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 08-293074
- a transmission mechanism such as a gear is interposed in order to increase the torque of the power transmitted to the wire.
- torque can be obtained, but since the transmission mechanism is provided between the wire and the motor, the reaction due to the bending force of the endoscope is difficult to detect.
- the present invention provides a medical medical device in which disturbance information is accurately reflected in a bending instruction value for controlling a bending operation and a control based on a change amount of the insertion portion with respect to an endoscope having an insertion portion that is electrically bent.
- An object is to provide a control device.
- an embodiment according to the present invention has a curved portion provided with a plurality of joints that are pulled and driven by a wire, an insertion portion that is inserted into a body cavity, and the wire is pulled and driven.
- a drive unit that bends the bending unit; a control unit that controls traction drive of the wire with respect to the drive unit; and a detection unit that detects a change in the traction drive amount of the wire input to the control unit;
- a medical control device comprising: an adjustment unit that adjusts characteristics of disturbance information generated in the drive unit based on a detection result of the detection unit.
- a control device for an endoscope having an insertion portion that is bent by electric power, medical information in which disturbance information is accurately reflected in the control based on the bending instruction value for controlling the bending operation and the change amount of the insertion portion.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of a motor unit in the medical control apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic overall configuration of the medical control device according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of a controller based on signal processing of a motor drive system provided in the motor unit 3 in the first embodiment.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a motor model applied to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration in which the signal processing of the motor drive system shown in FIG. 3 is simplified.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic in the relationship between the conventional gain and the frequency.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic in the controller of the present embodiment.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of a motor unit in the medical control apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic overall configuration of the medical control
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a tracking characteristic and a disturbance characteristic in the controller of the second embodiment.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a configuration in which the signal processing of the motor drive system according to the third embodiment is simplified.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a tracking characteristic and a disturbance characteristic in the controller of the third embodiment.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration in which the signal processing of the motor drive system of the fourth embodiment is simplified.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a tracking characteristic and a disturbance characteristic in the controller of the fourth embodiment.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of a motor unit in the medical control apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic overall configuration of the medical control apparatus according to the first embodiment, and each component of the following first embodiment is necessary for explaining the gist of the present invention. Only components are shown, and components such as a foot switch provided in a general endoscope apparatus are provided, and illustration and description thereof are omitted.
- the medical control device 1 of this embodiment is a master-slave medical control device that performs a bending operation by pulling a wire at a plurality of joint portions provided in the insertion portion 2a of the endoscope body 2.
- the medical control apparatus 1 includes an endoscope main body 2 in which an insertion section [insertion section] 2a is curved, a motor unit [drive section] 3 provided on the proximal end side of the endoscope main body 2, and an entire system.
- the system control unit 4 controls the operation unit 5 that instructs the system control unit 4 to bend the insertion unit 2a, and the monitor unit 6 displays the captured image.
- the system control unit 4 sends a drive control signal to the motor unit 3 to perform drive control, and performs image processing on an image captured by the imaging unit 2b provided at the distal end of the insertion unit 2. .
- the motor unit 3 is connected to the system control unit 4 through a connector by a monitor unit cable 7. Similarly, the operation unit 5 and the monitor unit 6 are connected to the system control unit 4 via an operation unit cable 8 and a monitor cable 9, respectively. Further, in the configuration provided with the imaging unit 2b, the motor unit 3 is provided with an image sending line (not shown) for sending image data captured by the imaging device to the system control unit 4. Further, although not shown in the drawing, in the insertion portion 2, a hole penetrating from the insertion opening opened on the base end side to the distal end portion so as to penetrate a treatment tool for performing treatment on the affected portion, so-called, A forceps channel and a light guide or LED for illumination are provided.
- FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of the motor unit 3.
- the motor unit 3 is provided with a power connector 13 and an operation unit connector 14 to which the monitor unit cable 7 from the system control unit 4 described above is branched and connected to a power line and an operation unit line.
- the connector is divided into two parts for easy understanding.
- the terminals in one connector are divided into a power supply terminal and an operation unit terminal. It may be used.
- the motor unit 3 is roughly divided into a drive unit 11 and a drive control unit 12.
- the drive unit 11 includes a plurality of motors 24 for pulling the respective wires 22 connected to the plurality of joints 21 disposed in the bent portion 2a, and a torque output by the motor 24 via the motors 24 and the respective wires 22.
- Drive mechanism 23 for increasing the speed
- clutch portion 25 for connecting or disconnecting the transmission of the driving force between the drive gear mechanism 23 and each wire 22, and the connected (ON) / disconnected (OFF) state of the clutch portion 25
- a clutch sensor 26 having a switch structure for detecting the current, a potentiometer 27 for detecting the absolute value of the current value of the motor 24, and a gear 28 provided on the wire 22 for the potentiometer 27 to detect the absolute value.
- an encoder 29 provided on the motor 24 (or a pulley (not shown)) for acquiring wire pulling information.
- the drive control unit 11 is an electronic circuit formed on an LSI (Large Scale Integrated circuit) chip, for example.
- the drive control unit 11 includes a communication circuit 31 that communicates with the system control unit 4, a processing unit (FPGA) 32 that receives a signal (to be described later) and performs a servo calculation, a control power source 33 that serves as a power supply unit, and And a drive power source 34.
- the drive control unit 11 includes a feedback (F / B) signal input unit 35 to which an output signal from the encoder 29 is input, and an analog input (AI) signal input unit to which a current signal applied to the motor 24 is input. 36 and a digital input (DI) signal input unit 37 to which a signal indicating an absolute value from the clutch sensor 26 is input.
- F / B feedback
- AI analog input
- DI digital input
- control power supply 33 supplies a drive power supply that is raised and lowered to a DC voltage that meets the specifications of the processing unit 16 via the DC / DC converter 38.
- the drive power supply 18 supplies drive power to the motor drive 20 that drives the motor 24 based on a control signal from the processing unit 16.
- FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of a controller based on signal processing of a motor drive system provided in the motor unit 3 in the present embodiment.
- the controller 40 includes a position control unit 41, a speed control unit 42, a current control unit 43, a differentiation circuit 44, and a disturbance observer unit 45.
- the position control unit 41 generates a position command based on the command value ([1] command) input from the operation unit 5 and outputs the position command to the speed control unit 42 as a position command.
- the speed control unit 42 outputs a speed command generated based on the position command and the current signal input to the fed-back motor 24 to the current control unit 43 as a speed command.
- the current control unit 43 generates a current command that is a traction drive amount for the wire based on the speed command, and outputs the current command to the motor 24 as a current command for driving.
- the motor 24 pulls and drives the wire so that the target position [2] indicated by the current command is obtained.
- the position information based on the target position is input from the motor 24 so as to be fed back to the differentiation circuit 44 and the position control unit 41.
- the differentiation circuit 44 performs differentiation processing on the position information input in time series, and outputs the differential signal (motor positioning) to the speed control unit 42 and the disturbance observer unit 45.
- the disturbance observer unit 45 receives a current signal input to the motor 24 and a differential signal output from the differentiating circuit 44, and outputs a tension estimation value to be described later.
- a load disturbance [3] is applied to the motor shaft of the motor 24 due to the mechanical configuration. Since this load disturbance is equivalent to the reaction force of wire pulling, it can be detected as a load applied to the wire. For this reason, the load (tension amount) applied to the wire can be estimated from the disturbance amount in the disturbance load without providing a sensor such as a tension sensor.
- the disturbance observer itself is already known and used for various controls.
- the disturbance observer unit 45 of the present embodiment exists as an application program in an arithmetic processing unit such as a CPU provided in the system control unit 4, for example.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a motor model applied to this embodiment.
- An input command (wire pulling drive amount: torque command) applied to the motor from the motor drive is a current command.
- rotation and positioning in the motor are performed.
- the input disturbance d shown in FIG. 4 is a disturbance load applied to the motor shaft.
- the input command u (torque command) fed back and input from the motor drive 39 is a current command. Based on this current command, a motor torque constant Kt is output. Next, the motor torque constant Kt and the disturbance load d are added, and the added value is divided by the product of the motor inertia moment j and the Laplace operator s. The quotient obtained by the division becomes a speed command, that is, the rotational speed information (speed information) of the motor, and is divided again by the Laplace operator s and output as the motor target position.
- the disturbance observer section is arranged so that the same physical model as this actual motor model is arranged in parallel. This is because the motor torque constant Kt ′ (catalog value) based on the input command u from the motor drive 39 and the product of the motor inertia moment jn (catalog value) and the Laplace operator s (jn ⁇ s) To obtain the observation disturbance. That is, the disturbance observer unit obtains reverse dynamics and estimates the disturbance (tension) applied to the motor shaft from the information of the reverse dynamics.
- FIG. 5 shows a simplified configuration of the signal processing of the motor drive system shown in FIG.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the relationship between the conventional gain and the frequency, and shows the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the relationship between the gain and the frequency in the controller 40 of the present embodiment, and shows position transmission, that is, follow-up characteristics and disturbance characteristics.
- a current value that suggests the target position of the motor is fed back to the input side of the controller 40 through the feedback loop, and is input to the controller 40 together with the command value.
- Transmission from the command value [1] to the target position [2] of the motor is shown as a follow-up characteristic.
- This follow-up characteristic can be expressed by C (s) P (s) / (1 + C (s) P (s)).
- P (s) transfer characteristic of the motor model.
- the transmission from the load disturbance [3] to the motor target position [2] is shown as a disturbance characteristic.
- This disturbance characteristic can be expressed by P (s) / (1 + C (s) P (s)).
- C (s) transfer characteristic of the controller
- P (s) transfer characteristic of the motor model.
- tracking characteristics and disturbance characteristics cannot be individually changed, and have a complementary relationship with respect to gain at frequency. For example, there is a relationship that when the gain of the disturbance characteristic is increased, that is, the sensitivity is increased, the tracking characteristic gain is also increased. If the gain of the tracking characteristic is set too high, there arises a problem that when the input signal changes, overshoot or the like occurs and it takes time to converge to one value. That is, the followability is deteriorated.
- the follow-up characteristic theoretically has a constant gain at a certain value from a low frequency to a certain frequency T as shown by a broken line m in FIG. It attenuates so as to descend. Further, the disturbance characteristic indicated by the solid line n increases linearly from a low frequency to a certain frequency T, and changes constantly at a certain value from the time when the gain exceeds the frequency T that intersects the tracking characteristic.
- the amount of change in the command value is detected to determine whether the motor is operating or stopped. If this determination indicates a stop state, as shown by the solid line p in FIG. 7, the gain of the controller is set higher from the normal set value to a desired value as the gain of the disturbance characteristic (decreasing the damping factor). At this time, the tracking characteristic when the gain of the controller is set high is such that the gain once changes up and down once before the frequency T as shown by the thick broken line q in FIG. As a result, the characteristic is attenuated linearly beyond the frequency T. Due to the change in the gain, the motor may not rotate smoothly when driven, but may rotate with vibration.
- the gain of the controller is a parameter set in each of the position control unit, the speed control unit, and the current control unit shown in FIG.
- the parameter is arbitrarily set to set an output value (current command) with respect to an input value (speed command).
- These parameters are set in advance in a memory (not shown) provided in the drive control unit 12 shown in FIG. 2, and are read out as necessary and set to be rewritable in the respective components. .
- the controller gain is set back to the normal setting value.
- the gain when the motor is stopped, the gain can be set high so that the disturbance can be captured with the sensitivity of the disturbance characteristic set high. Further, the tracking characteristic is not affected by returning the gain of the disturbance characteristic to the normal set value at the start of the motor operation.
- the appropriate tension applied to the motor can be estimated, and the operation applied by adjusting the tension applied to the wire for driving the bent portion.
- a delicate position operation is easy for the person.
- a dedicated sensor for detecting the tension can be omitted, which can contribute to the reduction in size and weight of the motor unit.
- the gain of the disturbance characteristic is set high when the motor is stopped.
- the frequency band is widened in order to increase the sensitivity of the disturbance characteristic when the motor is stopped. This is an example of switching to. Note that the configuration of the present embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment described above, and the same reference numerals are used for the components, and the description thereof is omitted.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the relationship between the gain and the frequency in the controller 40 of the present embodiment, and shows a state where the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic are switched. Also in this embodiment, the transmission from the command value [1] to the target position [2] of the motor is the same as described above with the following characteristic C (s) P (s) / (1 + C (s) P (s)). Yes, transmission from the load disturbance [3] to the target position [2] of the motor is the disturbance characteristic P (s) / (1 + C (s) P (s)).
- the amount of change in the command value is detected to determine whether the motor is operating or stopped. If the determination is in a stopped state, the disturbance characteristic is lowered from the normal set value (thin solid line p2) of the frequency T at which the gain of the controller changes to the desired frequency T1, as indicated by the thick solid line p1 in FIG. (Set the cut-off frequency lower). At this time, the tracking characteristic is also lowered from the frequency T shown by the thin broken line in FIG. 8 to T1.
- the set frequency T1 is switched to the frequency T to return to the normal state.
- the gain can be increased by switching to a low inspection band frequency when the motor is stopped, the load disturbance can be captured with high sensitivity, and the detection capability of the disturbance observer can be increased until the motor starts driving. I can leave. Furthermore, the frequency set low is returned to a normal state with the drive start of a motor.
- the motor operation can be started with the sensitivity of the disturbance characteristic set high by setting the gain high.
- the tracking characteristic is not affected by returning the gain of the disturbance characteristic to the normal set frequency by starting the operation.
- the gain is switched when the motor is stopped or operating, but in this embodiment, when the motor is stopped, in addition to rewriting the gain,
- the compensation element (FB) is inserted into the feedback loop by switching.
- FIG. 9 shows a configuration in which the signal processing of the motor drive system is simplified.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic in the controller 40 of the present embodiment.
- a compensation element (FB) 51 and a changeover switch 52 are arranged in a feedback loop from the motor (P) 26 to the controller (C) 40.
- the compensation element (FB) 51 is a processing unit provided on a program (or application software).
- the compensation element (FB) 51 has a certain frequency band, in the present embodiment, up to the upper limit frequency T2 above the frequency T. It is constructed by a program that sets the gain to be high and increases the sensitivity of disturbance in the band.
- the changeover switch 52 is constructed by a program for performing a changeover operation.
- the changeover switch 52 when the motor is operating normally, the changeover switch 52 is connected to the terminal 1 and has a connection configuration equivalent to the tracking characteristic in the first embodiment described above. ing.
- the changeover switch 52 switches from the terminal 1 to the terminal 2 and inserts the compensation element (FB) 51 into the feedback loop.
- FB compensation element
- the motor operation is started and the changeover switch 52 is switched from the terminal 2 to the terminal 1 and the compensation element (FB) 51 is removed. It becomes a normal configuration.
- the compensation element (FB) 51 is inserted into or removed from the feedback loop for feeding back from the motor to the controller by the changeover switch 52.
- This insertion / removal makes it possible to perform switching in a unified manner according to the parameter (or coefficient) of the compensation element (FB) 51 without changing each of the plurality of gains in the controller.
- the compensation element (FB) 51 is also constructed by a program or the like, a problem such as an increase in size does not occur without using a substantial space in the apparatus.
- FIG. 11 shows a configuration in which the signal processing of the motor drive system in this embodiment is simplified.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating the tracking characteristic and the disturbance characteristic in the controller 40 of the present embodiment.
- the compensation element (FB) 51 is inserted into and removed from the feedback loop by the changeover switch.
- the compensation element (FF) is provided before the controller (C) 40.
- a compensation element (FB) is arranged in a feedback loop from the motor (P) 26 to the controller (C) 40.
- compensation elements (FF) and compensation elements (FB) are processing units provided on a program (or application software). As shown in FIG. 10, the compensation element (FB) acts to compensate for increasing the gain of the disturbance characteristic. The compensation element (FF) acts so as to return the compensation by the compensation element (FB) to the normal disturbance characteristic gain.
- the transmission from the command value [1] to the target position [2] of the motor is shown as a follow-up characteristic.
- This follow-up characteristic can be expressed by C (s) ⁇ P (s) ⁇ FF (s) / (1 + C (s) ⁇ P (s) ⁇ FB (s)).
- C (s) Controller transfer characteristic
- P (s) Motor model transfer characteristic
- FF (s) Compensation element (FF) transfer characteristic
- FB (s) Compensation element (FB) transfer.
- the transmission from the load disturbance [3] to the motor target position [2] is shown as a disturbance characteristic.
- This disturbance characteristic can be expressed by P (s) / (1 + C (s) ⁇ P (s) ⁇ FB (s)).
- P (s) is the transfer characteristic of the motor model
- FF (s) is the transfer characteristic of the compensation element (FF)
- FB (s) is the transfer characteristic of the compensation element (FB).
- the tracking characteristic shown in FIG. 12 is obtained by inserting both the transfer characteristic of the compensation element and the compensation element (FB), so that the respective compensations are canceled at the time of input to the controller 40, and the first embodiment described above. Equivalent characteristics.
- the detection sensitivity is increased according to the frequency by using the compensation element (FB) regardless of the stop state or the operation state.
- the disturbance characteristic is compensated for increasing the gain of the controller in a frequency band equal to or higher than the frequency T.
- the gain of the disturbance characteristic that is, the sensitivity, using the compensation element (FB)
- the detection sensitivity is increased according to the frequency regardless of the stop or the operating state, and the tracking characteristic is increased.
- this embodiment can obtain the same operational effects as those of the first embodiment described above. Furthermore, in this embodiment, it is not necessary to determine the stop / operation state of the motor, and in the disturbance characteristics, for the frequency band where the sensitivity is desired to be increased, the feedback signal is arbitrarily compensated to increase the gain, and the tracking characteristics In, the compensation for the disturbance characteristic can be canceled to prevent the follow-up performance from being deteriorated.
- the invention according to each of the embodiments described above can be implemented by combining the embodiments, and can be realized even if components other than the gist of the embodiments are deleted. An effect can be obtained.
- an insertion means that is inserted into a body cavity and provided with a wire inside; Driving means for driving the wire to bend the insertion means; Instruction input means for inputting a bending instruction amount to the wire; Control means for performing drive control in the insertion means based on a bending instruction amount from the instruction input means; Detecting means for detecting a change in a bending instruction amount input to the instruction input means; Disturbance estimation means for adjusting the acquisition sensitivity of disturbance information generated by the drive means and estimating the amount of disturbance when it is determined that the vehicle is stopped from the change in the bending drive amount based on the detection result of the detection means.
- a medical control apparatus that performs drive control of the insertion unit based on a disturbance amount estimated by the disturbance estimation unit.
- the medical control apparatus wherein the disturbance estimation unit increases a gain with respect to a frequency in the control unit.
- the disturbance estimation unit lowers a gain with respect to a frequency in the control unit.
- the disturbance estimation unit performs compensation to increase sensitivity of the disturbance information from a gain tracking characteristic with respect to frequency.
- the disturbance estimation technique compensates for the input drive amount regardless of the detection result of the detection means, and performs compensation for increasing the sensitivity of the disturbance information.
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そこで本発明は、電動により屈曲する挿入部を有する内視鏡に対して、湾曲動作を制御するための湾曲指示値と挿入部の変化量による制御に、正確に外乱情報を反映させた医療用制御装置を提供することを目的とする。
図1は、本発明の第1の実施形態に係る医療用制御装置内のモータユニットの内部構成を示す図である。図2には、第1の実施形態に係る医療用制御装置の概略的な全体構成を示す図であり、以下の第1の実施形態の各構成部は、本発明の要旨の説明に必要なもののみを示しており、一般的な内視鏡装置が備えている構成部、例えば、フットスイッチ等は、備えているものとし、図示及びその説明は省略している。
モータユニット3には、前述したシステム制御部4からのモニタユニットケーブル7が電源ラインと操作部ラインに分岐して接続する電源コネクタ13と操作部コネクタ14とが設けられている。尚、本実施形態では、理解しやすいように、コネクタを2つに分けて図示しているが、実際のケーブルにおいては、1つのコネクタ内の端子を電源用端子と操作部用端子に分けて用いている場合がある。
駆動部11は、屈曲部2a内に配置の複数の関節21に連結された各ワイヤ22を牽引するための複数のモータ24と、モータ24と各ワイヤ22に介在し、モータ24が出力するトルクを上げるための駆動ギヤ機構23と、駆動ギヤ機構23と各ワイヤ22との駆動力の伝達を連結又は遮断するためのクラッチ部25と、クラッチ部25の連結(ON)/遮断(OFF)状態を検出するスイッチ構造のクラッチセンサ26と、モータ24の電流値の絶対値を検出するためのポテンションメータ27と、ポテンションメータ27が絶対値を検出するためにワイヤ22に設けられたギヤ28と、モータ24(又は、図示しないプーリ)に設けられてワイヤ牽引情報を取得するエンコーダ29と、を備えている。
このコントローラ40は、位置制御部41と、速度制御部42と、電流制御部43と、微分回路44と、外乱オブザーバ部45とで構成される。
モータドライブからモータに印加される入力指令(ワイヤ牽引駆動量:トルクコマンド)は、電流指令である。この電流指令に応じて、モータにおける回転及び位置決めが行われる。また図4に示した入力する外乱dは、モータ軸に掛かる外乱負荷とする。
前述した第1の実施形態では、モータの停止状態の時に外乱特性のゲインを高く設定したが、本実施形態では、停止状態の時に外乱特性の感度を高めるために、周波数における帯域を広くなるように切り換えを行う例である。尚、本実施形態の構成は、前述した第1の実施形態と同等であり、構成部位に同じ参照符号を用いて、その説明を省略する。
本実施形態においても、指令値[1]からモータの目標位置[2]まで伝達は、前述したと同じ、追従特性C(s)P(s)/(1+C(s)P(s))であり、負荷外乱[3]からモータの目標位置[2]まで伝達は、外乱特性P(s)/(1+C(s)P(s))である。
前述した第1,2の実施形態では、モータの停止状態又は動作状態の切り換わり時に、ゲインの切り換えを行ったが、本実施形態では、モータの停止状態の時に、ゲインの書き換えに加えて、切り換えにより補償要素(FB)を帰還ループに挿入する構成である。
図11は、本実施形態におけるモータ駆動系の信号処理を簡略化した構成を示す。図12は、本実施形態のコントローラ40における追従特性と外乱特性を示す図である。
前述した第3の実施形態では、切り換えスイッチにより補償要素(FB)51を帰還ループ内への挿脱を行っていたが、本実施形態は、コントローラ(C)40の前段に補償要素(FF)を配置し、モータ(P)26からコントローラ(C)40への帰還ループに補償要素(FB)を配置した構成例である。
尚、前述した各実施形態による発明は、各実施形態を組み合わせて実施することも可能であり、各実施形態の要旨以外の構成部位を削除したとしても、実現可能であり、本発明の作用及び効果を得ることができる。
(1)体腔内に挿入するとともに内部にワイヤが設けられた挿入手段と、
前記ワイヤを駆動させて前記挿入手段を湾曲させる駆動手段と、
前記ワイヤに対して湾曲指示量を入力する指示入力手段と、
前記指示入力手段からの湾曲指示量に基づいて前記挿入手段における駆動制御を行う制御手段と、
前記指示入力手段に入力される湾曲指示量の変化を検知する検知手段と、
前記検知手段の検知結果に基づいて前記湾曲駆動量の変化から停止状態と判断した場合に、前記駆動手段で生じる外乱情報の取得感度を調整して外乱量を推定する外乱推定手段と、を備え、
前記外乱推定手段により推定された外乱量に基づいて前記挿入手段の駆動制御を行うことを特徴とする医療用制御装置。
(3)前記外乱推定手段は、前記制御手段において周波数に対するゲインを下げることを特徴とする前記(1)に記載の医療用制御装置。
(4)前記外乱推定手段は、周波数に対するゲインの追従特性から前記外乱情報の感度を上げる補償を行うことを特徴とする前記(1)に記載の医療用制御装置。
(5)前記外乱推定手毅は、前記検知手段における検知結果によらず前記入力される駆動量を補償するとともに、前記外乱情報の感度を上げる補償を行うことを特徴とする前記(1)に記載の医療用制御装置。
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- ワイヤにより牽引駆動する複数の関節が設けられる湾曲部を有し、体腔内に挿入される挿入部と、
前記ワイヤを牽引駆動させて、前記湾曲部を湾曲させる駆動部と、
前記駆動部に対して、前記ワイヤの牽引駆動を制御する制御部と、
前記制御部に入力される前記ワイヤの牽引駆動量の変化を検知する検知部と、
前記検知部の検知結果に基づいて、前記駆動部で生じる外乱情報の特性を調整する調整部と、
を備えることを特徴とする医療用制御装置。 - 前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合には、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインの値を上げるゲイン調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合には、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインのピークを低い周波数側に移動させるゲイン調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合には、前記外乱情報の感度を上げる第1の補償を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、前記検知部における検知結果によらず、前記入力される駆動量を第2の補償を行うとともに、前記外乱情報の感度を上げる第1の補償を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合には、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインの値を上げて、外乱特性の感度を高くする調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合には、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインのピークを低い周波数側に移動させて、周波数に対する外乱特性の感度を高くする調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 前記調整部は、
前記駆動部に入力される駆動量の変化に従って、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインの値を上げる補償を行う第1の補償部と、
前記補償部の出力を切り換えにより前記制御部に入力させる切り換え部と、
を具備し、
前記調整部は、前記検知部が前記駆動量の変化から前記駆動部が停止状態であると判断した場合は、前記切り換え部により前記補償部により補償された外乱情報の特性を前記制御部に入力し、外乱特性の感度を高くする調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。 - 前記調整部は、
前記駆動部に入力される駆動量の変化に従って、前記外乱情報の特性におけるゲインの値を上げる第1の補償を行う第1の補償部と、
前記第1の補償部の補償により上げられるゲインの値と同値のゲインを下げる第2の補償を行う第2の補償を行う第2の補償部と、を具備し、
前記第1の補償部は、前記駆動部に入力する前記駆動量に基づく信号に第1の補償を行い、前記制御部にフィードバックし、
前記第2の補償部は、前記入力部による前記湾曲指令値を受けて、前記第2の補償を行い、ゲインの値を下降させ、さらに、前記第1の補償が行われた前記駆動量に基づく信号に前記第1の補償によりゲインの下降を打ち消して、前記制御部に入力し、所望する周波数以上の外乱特性の感度を高くする調整を行うことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。 - 前記調整部により行われるゲインの調整は、前記湾曲部を湾曲動作させる際の、位置制御における位置指令と、湾曲動作速度の速度制御における速度指令と、前記位置指令と前記速度指令により生成される前記駆動部を動作させる電流信号の電流制御における電流指令と、に対してそれぞれ調整を施すことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の医療用制御装置。
- 先端側内部にそれぞれにワイヤと連結する複数の関節が設けられる湾曲部を有し、体腔内に挿入される挿入部と、
前記ワイヤを牽引して前記関節を屈曲させて前記挿入部を湾曲させる駆動部と、
前記湾曲部における湾曲指令値を指示する入力部と、
前記入力部による前記湾曲指令値を受けて前記駆動部に対する駆動量を生成し、前記湾曲部の駆動制御を行う制御部と、
前記駆動部に入力される前記駆動量と前記湾曲部に掛かる前記ワイヤの牽引情報とを取得する検知部と、
前記ワイヤの牽引情報及び前記外乱情報に基づいて、前記駆動部で生じる外乱情報の特性を調整し前記制御部にフィードバックする調整部と、
を備え、
前記調整部から出力された、調整された外乱情報の特性が反映された前記湾曲指令値が前記制御部に入力されることを特徴とする医療用制御装置。
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