A Swallowing Robot: What, Why and How
The consumption of liquid and solid foods is primal to the maintenance of adequate hydration and nutrition in man. Ingestion is a complex process where palatable material is broken down and discretised into boluses after which they are conveyed to the stomach for digestion. There exists difficulty in monitoring the efficacy of bolus transport through the deglutitive apparatus in vivo, especially in patients which exhibit pathological difficulties. To understand the effects of bolus rheology on the deglutition process we propose to develop a bio-mimetic mechatronic swallowing device. This will facilitate investigation of the rheological properties as the bolus is in transit to determine how they interact with the swallowing process. These properties are of interest to food technologists who aim to develop foods for meeting consumer acceptance of various requirements, such as for dysphagic populations to facilitate safe swallowing. The purpose of this review is to develop an awareness of the physiological system and the transferability of the geometrical, actuation, and control concepts into the engineering domain, for the purpose of building a swallowing robot. It presents a body of knowledge, beginning with the behaviour and measurement of the deglutitive apparatus, followed by an investigation of deglutitive adaptation in response to rheological stimuli. The neural control strategies are then discussed before concluding with the state of, and demand for, research in the medical, food textural, and swallowing robotic fields.
F.J.Chen S.Dirven W.L.Xu J.Bronlund X.N.Li A.Pulan
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand School of Mechanical E Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, China Department of Engineering Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics(第四届国际机械工程与力学会议)
苏州
英文
2-13
2011-08-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）