Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput
Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput
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仿生软弯曲蠕动泵利用气球实现高容量吞吐量
DOI：
10.1109/tmrb.2022.3192763
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2022
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Costi L
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Costi L
在过去的十年里，由于生物蠕动泵具有极强的灵活性和内在的顺应性，在科学界越来越受欢迎。本文提出了一种利用气胀原理的软蠕动泵。我们的目标是通过控制气球与外部柔性密封管之间的空气压力来促进和推进气球区域，以简单的设计和仅使用一个控制信号来实现蠕动泵送运动。本文介绍了该泵及其入口-泵-出口系统的实现，给出了预测该泵性能的分析模型，并展示了实验结果。我们还实现了计算机模拟来进一步表征该器件。我们表明，只有一个控制信号，就可以实现高体积流量，为更灵活和易于制造的蠕动泵铺平道路。
Interest in bioinspired peristaltic pumps has grown in popularity among the scientific community in the last decade thanks to their extreme flexibility and their intrinsic compliance. In this paper, we propose a soft peristaltic pump exploiting ballooning. Our aim is to promote and propel forward the ballooned region by controlling the air pressure between the balloon and an external flexible containment tube, to achieve a peristaltic pumping motion with a simple design and using only one control signal. This paper describes the implementation of the pump and the inlet-pump-outlet system, provides an analytical model to predict the pump performance, and showcases experimental results. We also implement a computer simulation to further characterize the device. We show that it is possible to achieve high volumetric flow rates, up to, with only a single control signal, paving the way for more flexible and easy to manufacture peristaltic pumps.