Design of Carryable Intravenous Drip Frame with Automatic Balancing
Ming-Feng Wu,
Chia-Shan Chen,
I-Shan Chen,
Tz-Hau Kuo,
Chih-Yu Wen,
William A. Sethares
Affiliations
Ming-Feng Wu
Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407, Taiwan
Chia-Shan Chen
Department of Electrical Engineering, Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture (IDCSA), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
I-Shan Chen
Department of Electrical Engineering, Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture (IDCSA), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Tz-Hau Kuo
Department of Electrical Engineering, Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture (IDCSA), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Chih-Yu Wen
Department of Electrical Engineering, Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture (IDCSA), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
William A. Sethares
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Due to the inconvenience of the conventional intravenous drip frame, the piggyback intravenous drip frame is developed to improve the mobility of the patient. However, the current design of the drip frame leads to a lack of balance control and increment of blood returning. To this end, the proposed system aims to solve this problem, and a fuzzy proportionalintegral−derivative control technique is developed to demonstrate the system feasibility. Accordingly, a reliable balanced system can be applied to facilitate patients’ movements and ensure patient safety with compensating the inclination angle of the drip frame such that the reduction of blood returning and the balance control of the piggyback intravenous drip frame can be achieved.
