title: An architecture for rapid prototyping of control schemes for artificial ventricles.
abstract: This paper presents an experimental system aimed at rapid prototyping of feedback control schemes for ventricular assist devices, and artificial ventricles in general. The system comprises a classical mock circulatory system, an actuated bellow-based ventricle chamber, and a software architecture for control schemes implementation and experimental data acquisition, visualization and storing. Several experiments have been carried out, showing good performance of ventricular pressure tracking control schemes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti, 93 - Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ficola
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pagnottelli
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Valigi
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zoppitelli