Development of totally implantable total artificial heart controller

  • Choi, Won-Woo (Dept. of Boimedical Eng., College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-hoon (Dept. of Boimedical Eng., College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Woo-Cheol (Dept. of Boimedical Eng., College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Min, Byoung-Gu (Dept. of Boimedical Eng., College of Medicine, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 1991.10.01

Abstract

Using one chip microcontroller 87Cl96 (On chip EPROM type) and EPLD (Erasable & Programable Logic Device), an implantable control system to drive pendulum type electromechanical total artificial heart was developed. This control system consists of 4 parts, main management system, motor driver with power regulator, state monitoring system and communication part. The main system has the functions for speed detection, PI(proportional and integration) control, PWM generation, communication and analog data processor. Two kinds of power system were used and separated by 8 photo coupler arrays to improve the system stability. The performances of each compartments were compared with our previous z80 microprocessor based control system and good correspondences was shown. Logic power consumption was reduced to a one third of our previous controller. Using mock circulation tests, the overall performances of control system are evaluated.

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