Research on Coaxial Control of Magnetic Spiral-Type Capsule Endoscope

Bo Ye; Zhaoquan Zhong; Wei Zhang; Donghong Hu

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3001048

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Research on Coaxial Control of Magnetic Spiral-Type Capsule Endoscope

Bo Ye,
Zhaoquan Zhong,
Wei Zhang,
Donghong Hu

Affiliations

Bo Ye: ORCiD; School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
Zhaoquan Zhong: ORCiD; School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
Wei Zhang: ORCiD; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, China
Donghong Hu: ORCiD; School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3001048
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 108113 – 108120

Abstract

Read online

In this paper, a novel method of controlling the wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) is proposed. The WCE is coated with a magnetic shell wounded by a spiral structure. The external permanent magnet (EPM) provides coaxial control to the magnetic spiral-type WCE. According to this control method, the maximum and minimum control distances between the EPM and WCE are theoretically analyzed and simulated by electromagnetic software, and the corresponding measured values are 276.3 mm, 87.1 mm, respectively. In experiments, the WCE's stable translational velocity can reach 32.9 mm/s. It indicates that this method is of good control performances and has great potential to be used in the future real clinical applications.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

About the journal

Abstract

Keywords