Development of a novel nonlinear model and control strategy for soft continuum robots featuring hard magnetoactive elastomers
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Magnetoactive soft continuum robots (MSCRs), capable of controllable steering and navigation, hold substantial promise for healthcare applications. However, advancements in MSCRs have been hindered by a limited understanding of MSCR dynamics and a lack of effective control methods. Addressing these gaps, this study presents a novel, time-dependent, and computationally efficient analytical model of MSCR, alongside a new optimal closed-loop control strategy for precise high-frequency trajectory tracking. A finite element (FE) model of the MSCR is initially developed, with its validity confirmed through rigorous laboratory measurements. Using the formulated FE model, a new and computationally efficient analytical model is subsequently developed to accurately predict the highly nonlinear response of MSCR. This model operates as a system of switched linear models, each of which is a reduced-order version of its corresponding high-order linear model extracted from the FE analysis. This innovative approach not only maintains the predictive accuracy of the FE model but also significantly reduces computational demands, operating in just a few seconds. The results highlight that the developed model can accurately predict the dynamic responses of the MSCR while significantly reducing the computational load by almost 80 orders of magnitude compared with the FE model on the same simulation platform. The proposed model has been effectively utilized to develop a novel optimal control strategy using the feedforward interval type-2 fractional-order fuzzy-PID method. A hardware-in-the-loop experimental test has been finally designed to demonstrate the superior performance of the MSCR under the proposed controller.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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