Technische Universität München Robotics and Embedded Systems
 

Corpuls Project: Automation of a Resucitation Assistant Device

 

Description

In Germany up to 200,000 people die as a consequence of sudden cardiac death. In an effort of saving a person from cardiac arrest manual chest compressions are applied, which require a high level of physical effort and leads to fatigue even to trained personnel, hence decreasing the reanimation quality. Existing electro-mechanical resuscitation devices (ERD) for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) must be constantly monitored by the staff and have different deficiencies.

The aim of this project is to automate the MRD and allow the real-time monitoring of vital signals. Through intelligent control systems the depth and pressure relief and compression rate should be automatically adjusted to assure good cerebral perfusion.

In the hectic emergency situation this system should help paramedics to focus on the transportation of the patient while the system automatically adjust different parameters.

Electromechanical resuscitation assistant device

The ERD si composed of a mechanic arm with a motor that is capable of generating compressions on the chest.

Electrhomechanical.jpg

Control Description

For the creation of the controller fuzzy logic is considered as a first approach to introduce the expert-knowledge. This is then extended into a smart, self-learning and adaptive system.

fuzzy.jpg

The control architecture consists on sensors capable of reading the patient's vital parameters, this information is used as input for a controller(1) in charge of activating the motor. An additional controller (2) uses the vital parameters to make changes to the compression movement such as depth, form and frequency to generate proper perfusion.

CorpulsSchematic.svg

Signal Processing

Due to the mechanical movement of the motor and the transportation of the patient the signals acquired by the sensors contain artifacts and noise, giving unreliable values for the acquired vital parameters. To overcome this different algorithms are implemented to eliminate the noise and obtain the correct vital parameters.

ecg.svg

Mathematical Modeling

The ERD is capable of generating different types of movements, as seen in the following figure. For each movements the depth of the compression (d) and the time between points can be changed t1-4 changing also conpression frequency. The type of compression movements will directly affect the amount of perfusion that is given to the body.

inputSignals.svg

To study the different types of compressions movements that can be generated a mathematical model of the cardiovascular system and of the ERD is generated, allowing intensive siumations of the system.

Corpulsmodel.jpg

People

Partners

German Heart Center Munich

Corpuls

bottom.svg