dynamic calibration
AutoRing: Imitation Learning--based Autonomous Intraocular Foreign Body Removal Manipulation with Eye Surgical Robot
Wang, Yue, Deng, Wenjie, Xue, Haotian, Cui, Di, Chen, Yiqi, Zhou, Mingchuan, Ying, Haochao, Wu, Jian
-- Intraocular foreign body removal demands millimeter-level precision in confined intraocular spaces, yet existing robotic systems predominantly rely on manual teleop-eration with steep learning curves. T o address the challenges of autonomous manipulation--particularly kinematic uncertainties from variable motion scaling and Remote Center of Motion (RCM) point variation--we propose AutoRing, an imitation learning framework for autonomous intraocular foreign body ring manipulation. Our approach integrates RCM dynamic calibration to resolve coordinate system inconsistencies caused by intraocular instrument variation and introduces the RCM-ACT architecture, which combines action chunking transformers with real-time kinematic realignment. Trained solely on stereo visual data and instrument kinematics from expert demonstrations in a biomimetic eye model, AutoRing successfully completes ring grasping and positioning tasks without explicit depth sensing. Experimental validation demonstrates the successful implementation of end-to-end autonomy under uncalibrated microscopy conditions. The results provide a viable framework for developing intelligent eye surgical systems capable of complex intraocular procedures. I. INTRODUCTION Intraocular foreign body removal requires submillimeter precision to safely remove fragments near delicate retinal tissues while minimizing iatrogenic damage [1]-[4].
Using a Bayesian-Inference Approach to Calibrating Models for Simulation in Robotics
Unjhawala, Huzaifa Mustafa, Zhang, Ruochun, Hu, Wei, Wu, Jinlong, Serban, Radu, Negrut, Dan
In robotics, simulation has the potential to reduce design time and costs, and lead to a more robust engineered solution and a safer development process. However, the use of simulators is predicated on the availability of good models. This contribution is concerned with improving the quality of these models via calibration, which is cast herein in a Bayesian framework. First, we discuss the Bayesian machinery involved in model calibration. Then, we demonstrate it in one example: calibration of a vehicle dynamics model that has low degree of freedom count and can be used for state estimation, model predictive control, or path planning. A high fidelity simulator is used to emulate the ``experiments'' and generate the data for the calibration. The merit of this work is not tied to a new Bayesian methodology for calibration, but to the demonstration of how the Bayesian machinery can establish connections among models in computational dynamics, even when the data in use is noisy. The software used to generate the results reported herein is available in a public repository for unfettered use and distribution.
Increasing the skill of short-term wind speed ensemble forecasts combining forecasts and observations via a new dynamic calibration
Casciaro, Gabriele, Ferrari, Francesco, Oneto, Daniele Lagomarsino, Lira-Loarca, Andrea, Mazzino, Andrea
This means that the contribution of wind power in power systems is becoming increasingly important. The downside is that detailed schedule plans and reserve capacity must be properly set by power system regulators (Impram et al., 2020) facing the intrinsic problem of the highly intermittent nature of wind, making this very hard to predict. The accuracy of wind forecasts thus becomes an issue of paramount importance for the wind industry. In a recent work by Casciaro et al. (2021), a novel accurate Ensemble Model Output Statistics (EMOS) strategy for calibrating wind speed/power forecasts from an Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) has been proposed and its superiority when compared against more parsimonious strategies in the 0-48 h look-ahead forecast horizon clearly emerged. However, because all global weather models start their run from analysis corresponding to the main synoptic hours 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC, weather predictions (of any forecast horizons) necessarily remain frozen for six hours.