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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.6.521

Research of Colonoscope Robot With Rotary Inertia Type Locomotion Mechanism  

Lee, Jaewoo (Department of Creative Science and Technolgy, Waseda University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.6, 2016 , pp. 521-526 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper suggests a new design that makes use of rotary inertia that can allow autonomous movement of an autonomous colonoscope robot in the colon of a patient as a locomotive mechanism. As commercial colonoscopy causes a lengthy time of pain and discomfort to the patients when colonoscopy patients are reluctant to receive surgery, there is a tendency to avoid the test in the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. To solve this problem, research has been conducted on the next generation of robotic colonoscopes that can reduce the discomfort and pain by moving autonomously within the colon of the patients. In the driving mechanism utilizing the rotational inertia, a flywheel is driven by a motor to store energy and produce rotational inertia. By the energy stored and released by the flywheel, the stick phenomenon that occurs when the robot is running in the intestine can be overcome effectively. To do this, a controller that can control the velocity of the flywheel and is robust to high frequency noise was designed and implemented. The driving mechanism using the rotational inertia presented here showed that the structure is also effective and the experiment can be run easily compared to another mechanism.
Keywords
rotary inertia; locomotive mechanism; robotic colonoscope; autonomous locomotion; flywheel;
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