Interaction Dynamics Modeling and Predictive Control for Safe Steerable Catheter--Tissue Interaction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20939v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:32:48 GMT
• Title: Interaction Dynamics Modeling and Predictive Control for Safe Steerable Catheter--Tissue Interaction
• Abstract summary: We formulate catheter--tissue interaction dynamics in the tip-normal coordinate of a single-segment single-tendon catheter.<n>A predictive inertia regulates this interaction state subject to hard contact-force, tendon-force, and constraints.<n>We show that offset-free motion regulation and contact-force safety are coupled interaction-dynamics objectives.
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• Abstract: Safe steerable catheter control is fundamentally a problem of interaction dynamics: the tip must follow a planned motion, remain compliant against moving tissue, reject friction and hysteresis, and respect a clinically meaningful never-exceed contact-force bound. We formulate catheter--tissue interaction dynamics in the scalar tip-normal coordinate of a single-segment single-tendon catheter. A partial-physics feedforward cancels only the reliable nominal bending dynamics, exposing a configuration-invariant linear interaction-dynamics model whose input gain varies through the scalar catheter inertia. A predictive optimizer then regulates this interaction state subject to hard contact-force, tendon-force, and curvature constraints. An augmented Kalman filter compresses contact, friction, and modeling error into one sensor-free disturbance state, giving nominal offset-free regulation in free space while leaving force safety to the explicit constraint. The unconstrained and disturbance-free limit recovers classical catheter impedance as a special realization of the same interaction dynamics, rather than as the main design object. In a MuJoCo distributed-compliance simulation of an eight-link tendon-driven catheter, disturbance augmentation cuts free-space approach error by 90\%, and only the force-constrained predictive interaction-dynamics controller reconciles tracking with the 0.5\,N bound: the unconstrained controller drives contact force to 0.60\,N against a penetrating target, while the constrained one holds 0.47\,N at identical tracking. These results show that offset-free motion regulation and contact-force safety are coupled interaction-dynamics objectives, and that the explicit predictive constraint resolves their tension under stiff tissue contact. The bound also holds under $0.5$\,mm, $1.2$\,Hz cardiac motion. Hardware validation is future work.

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