摘要:
A state detector and loop compensation parameter controller for use with an active hand controller system having a single hand controller or having first and second hand controllers, processing and control means for the hand controllers and a flight control computer. The state detector and loop compensation parameter controller accepts a plurality of inputs and provides a plurality of adjustment signals to the processing and control means to improve the performance of the active hand controller system.
摘要:
A control system for an active hand controller, for example, uses a control stick connected to and controlled by a motor. Electronics are provided to control the motor to eliminate oscillations due to motor torque and high gain due to breakout at the control stick when the control stick is at about its null position. Both hardware as well as software implementations can provide position dependent dampening to the control sticks such that when the control stick is located about a null position, a higher rate of dampening is provided than when the control stick is located outside the null position, when a lower rate of dampening is provided. The system provides a stable active hand controller control stick without degraded force and feel characteristics of the system.
摘要:
A brush-to-brushless motor controller adapter for use with a two-wire output signal from a medical console consists of a small enclosure containing a circuit board and has a short cable terminating in a two-wire connector which plugs into the two-wire controller output of the medical console and a connector jack for an electrical connection to a surgical instrument having a brushless D.C. motor. The brush-to-brushless motor controller generates a stable voltage for the adapter internal electronics (i.e., 12 to 15 volts), from a varying input voltage (i.e., 2.5 to 30 volts D.C.). The surgical instrument brushless D.C. motor speed is controlled as a function of the console output signal drive voltage amplitude and the adapter accepts pulsed inputs from a high power two-wire motor controller (e.g., 10 watts and up). The adapter accepts bipolar drive signals and is adapted to reverse the surgical instrument brushless D.C. motor direction in response to a change in input voltage polarity from the two-wire medical console controller circuit. The adapter circuit of the present invention eliminates the need for a negative supply voltage by creating a positive bias in the control loop such that the control signal is nominally 2.5V above ground (i.e., zero volts) and the adapter internal positive voltage supply level. The adapter may be calibrated to provide a given top motor speed for different consoles by adjusting speed gain and speed offset voltages and so can work with consoles having different maximum speed voltage signals. The instrument including the brushless D.C. motor is preferably, but not necessarily, a surgical instrument such as a shaver or resector and may be used in conjunction with ancillary equipment such as a selectively switchable pump.
摘要:
A redundant active hand controller system has first and second motors connected to a common shaft. A compensator which differentiates a motor command signal from a first proportional and integral controller, differentiates a motor command signal from a second proportional and integral controller and subtracts the first differentiated motor command signal from the second differentiated motor command signal to provide a correction signal. The correction signal is summed with the error signal into the first proportional and integral controller to correct for slight differences in the integral control function of the first and second proportional and integral controllers.
摘要:
An active hand controller system is provided wherein a feedback loop detects the position of a control stick to control a motor driving the control stick to thereby provide certain force feel characteristics to the control stick. The feedback loop includes a detector for detecting force exerted for the control stick to generate a signal indicative of the force or torque being applied to the control stick. In a more specific aspect, the invention includes the use of variable reluctance transformers, preferably in a push/pull configuration to detect the forces being exerted on the control stick.