Wireless endoscopic capsules can transmit the picture of the inside of the digestive tract to the external receiver for the purpose of gastrointestinal diseases diagnose. The localization of the capsule is needed to correlate the picture of detected anomalies with the particular fragment of intestine. For this purpose, the analysis of wireless transmission parameters can be applied. Such methods are affected by the impact of the human body on the electromagnetic wave propagation that is specific to the anatomy of individual person. The article presents the algorithm of localization of endoscopic capsules with wireless transmitter based on the detection of phase difference of received signals. The proposed algorithm uses simplified human body models that can change their dielectric properties in each iteration to improve the location of the capsule endoscope. Such approach allows to reduce localization error by around 12 mm (15%) and can by used for patients of different physique without the need of the numerical models of individual body.
The global (absolute) stability of nonlinear systems with negative
feedbacks and positive descriptor linear parts is addressed. Transfer
matrices of positive descriptor linear systems are analyzed. The
characteristics u = f(e) of the
nonlinear parts satisfy the condition
k₁e
≤ f(e) ≤ k₂e
for some positive k₁, k₂.
It is shown that the nonlinear feedback systems are globally
asymptotically stable if the Nyquist plots of the positive descriptor
linear parts are located in the right-hand side of the circles (–¹/k₁,
–¹/k₂).