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Abstract Contact force quality is one of the most critical factors for safe and effective lesion formation during catheter based atrial fibrillation ablation procedures. In this paper, the contact stability and contact safety of a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-actuated robotic cardiac ablation catheter subject to surface motion disturbances are studied. First, a quasi-static contact force optimization algorithm, which calculates the actuation needed to achieve a desired contact force at an instantaneous tissue surface configuration is introduced. This algorithm is then generalized using a least-squares formulation to optimize the contact stability and safety over a prediction horizon for a given estimated heart motion trajectory. Four contact force control schemes are proposed based on these algorithms. The first proposed force control scheme employs instantaneous heart position feedback. The second control scheme applies a constant actuation level using a quasi-periodic heart motion prediction. The third and the last contact force control schemes employ a generalized adaptive filter-based heart motion prediction, where the former uses the predicted instantaneous position feedback, and the latter is a receding horizon controller. The performance of the proposed control schemes is compared and evaluated in a simulation environment.
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A Probabilistic Approach for Contact Stability and Contact Safety Analysis of Robotic Intracardiac Catheter
Abstract The disturbances caused by the blood flow and tissue surface motions are major concerns during the motion planning of an intracardiac robotic catheter. Maintaining a stable and safe contact on the desired ablation point is essential for achieving effective lesions during the ablation procedure. In this paper, a probabilistic formulation of the contact stability and the contact safety for intravascular cardiac catheters under the blood flow and surface motion disturbances is presented. Probabilistic contact stability and contact safety metrics, employing a sample-based representation of the blood flow velocity distribution and the heart motion trajectory, are introduced. Finally, the contact stability and safety for an magnetic resonance imaging-actuated robotic catheter under main pulmonary artery blood flow disturbances and left ventricle surface motion disturbances are analyzed in simulation as example scenarios.
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- PAR ID:
- 10309157
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
- Volume:
- 143
- Issue:
- 9
- ISSN:
- 0022-0434
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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