FUZZY EXPECT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM

BOOTH NO : G2


Category : Health, Wellness & Wellbeing

ABSTRACT
Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a technique that enhances the healing process by applying negative pressure on the chronic or acute wounds. It has been diffusely adopted for treatment of trauma wound, chronic wound, or deep sternal wound infections due to its excellent healing result. However, there were several injuries and death cases caused by the unstable pressure generated from the wound treatment. This paper aims to design a stable negative pressure regulator by using fuzzy logic controller (FLC) .The proposed control approach is able to regulate the negative pressure within the desired range for healing process. The effectiveness of FLC pressure controlling and Boolean logic controller method is validated by experiments. In conclusion, it is proven that the proposed method is able to provide a safe wound treatment in future.
BACKGROUND
Negative pressure wound therapy is effective against slow-healing wound or diabetic wound but such therapy has caused 174 injuries and 12 deaths due to excessive bleeding resulted from unstable pressure control of the device. If the device exerts excessive pressure on the wound area, the pressure may tear the wound area apart and cause haemorrhage. If the device exerts inadequate pressure on the wound area, it slows down the healing process of the wound area as the pressure is not sufficient to induce mechanical stress that promotes cell growth. In addition, if the pressure control of the device remains uncontrolled, patients may feel uncomfortable and pain due to sudden spike or reduction of the pressure.
NEEDS
A safe and high efficiency wound treatment approach is needed for the diabetic wound treatment.
APPROACH
to generate negative pressure for the wound healing process. The negative pressure level is regulated by the Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) which the pressure level will be controlled at the desired setting level.
BENEFITS
The FLC of this NPWT machine is able to provide a high controlling efficiency on the negative pressure generated.
COMPETITORS
The cost of those existing wound treatment machines in the market are around RM70k and expense for the every wound dressing changing is about RM1000.
POTENTIAL MARKET
INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL HOSPITALS, CLINICS, HOME
RESEARCH TEAM
TAN TIAN SWEE FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRIK
JAHANZEB SHEIKH BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH SCIENCES JAHANZEB SHEIKH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LEONG KAH MENG BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH SCIENCES LEONG KAH MENG BIOSCIENCES AND MEDICAL ENGINEERING LEONG KAH MENG ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MATTHIAS TIONG FOH THYE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH SCIENCES MATTHIAS TIONG FOH THYE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TAN JIA HOU UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA TAN TIAN SWEE FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRIK