Magnetic Interactions of Neighbouring Stator Sets in Multi DOF Local Electromagnetic Actuation for Robotic Abdominal Surgery

Abstract

This paper aims to characterise the magnetic interaction in neighbouring sets of local electromagnetic actuation (LEMA) actuators in a robotic platform for abdominal surgery. The analysis looks into the affect of the magnetic fields contributed by a stator-rotor set (the actuation unit) located adjacent to the rotor of interest. Each rotor drives one of the degree-of-freedoms (DOFs) on a surgical robotic device. In this study, a two-DOF setup is used for the magnetic interaction analysis, which can be expanded to general case n-DOF setup with the Principle of Superposition of magnetic fields from multiple sources. The magnetic model is then used to compute the dynamics of the system, which i..