Paper Info
Title
Clamping Tools Of A Capsule For Monitoring The Gastrointestinal Tract - Problem Analysis And Preliminary Technological Activity
Abstract
This paper describes the development of an active clamping mechanism to be integrated into a swallowable pill for the diagnosis of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The clamping system allows to stop the pill in desired sites of the GI tract for long monitoring purposes. After discussing the major technical constraints, the design of the clamping system, based on FEA (Finite Element Analysis), is illustrated as well as its fabrication process. The clamping unit is actuated exploiting Shape Memory Alloys (SMA), in wires and spring configuration, and it is driven by a dedicated electrical interface. A fine tuning has been performed in order to limit the power consumption. Then a working prototype is fabricated and preliminarily tested, pointing out a capability of the grasping system over 40 g.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570296
2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-4
Keywords
Field
DocType
capsular endoscopy, GI tissue clamping, Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) actuation
Clamping,SMA*,Finite element method,Control engineering,Gastrointestinal tract problem,Engineering,Energy consumption,Power consumption
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2005
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arianna Menciassi1768138.57
Samuele Gorini2495.60
Andrea Moglia3294.75
G. Pernorio4435.81
Cesare Stefanini518845.66
Paolo Dario62017339.00