Paper Info
Title
EvoBot: Towards a Robot-Chemostat for Culturing and Maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs).
Abstract
In this paper we present EvoBot, a RepRap open-source 3D-printer modified to operate like a robot for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). EvoBot is a modular liquid handling robot that has been adapted to host MFCs in its experimental layer, gather data from the MFCs and react on the set thresholds based on a feedback loop. This type of robot-MFC interaction, based on the feedback loop mechanism, will enable us to study further the adaptability and stability of these systems. To date, EvoBot has automated the nurturing process of MFCs with the aim of controlling liquid delivery, which is akin to a chemostat. The chemostat is a well-known microbiology method for culturing bacterial cells under controlled conditions with continuous nutrient supply. EvoBot is perhaps the first pioneering attempt at functionalizing the 3D printing technology by combining it with the chemostat methods. In this paper, we will explore the experiments that EvoBot has carried out so far and how the platform has been optimised over the past two years.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
Living Machines
Adaptability,Chemostat,Computer science,Biochemical engineering,Biotechnology,Feedback loop,3D printing,Modular design,Robot,Liquid handling robot,Microbial fuel cell
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pavlina Theodosiou100.34
Andrés Faíña2479.60
Farzad Nejatimoharrami311.11
Kasper Støy4186.06
John Greenman5388.75
Chris Melhuish674787.61
Ioannis Ieropoulos74010.15