Experimental Evaluation of Haptic Shared Control for Multiple Electromagnetic Untethered Microrobots
Résumé
The precise manipulation of microrobots presents challenges arising from their small size and susceptibility to external disturbances. To address these challenges, we present the experimental evaluation of a haptic shared control teleoperation framework for the locomotion of multiple microrobots, relying on a kinesthetic haptic interface and a custom electromagnetic system. Six combinations of haptic and shared control strategies are evaluated during a safe 3D navigation scenario in a cluttered environment. 18 participants are asked to steer two spherical magnetic microrobots among obstacles to reach a predefined goal, under different conditions. For each condition, participants are provided with different obstacle avoidance and navigation guidance cues. Results show that providing assistance in avoiding obstacles guarantees safer performance, regardless if the assistance is autonomous or delivered through a haptic repulsive force. Moreover, autonomous obstacle avoidance also reduces the completion time by 30% compared to haptic obstacle avoidance and no obstacle avoidance cases, although haptic feedback is preferred by the users. Finally, providing haptic guidance towards the target improves by the 65% the positioning accuracy of the microrobots with respect to not providing this guidance. We also present some illustrative scenarios to generalize the presented haptic shared control strategies to arbitrary formations of N microrobots, while showing the effectiveness of the method for a clinical use-case of endovascular navigation in simulated environment.
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