Design and Control of Portable Ventilator Machine using Mechatronics Principles

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) poses a near-term threat to our healthcare system, putting strain on it and raising fatality rates due to a lack of vital supplies like ventilators. Various study details the design and prototype of an inexpensive transportable ventilator to utilize in resource-constrained settings and mass casualty scenarios. Without a human operator, the proposed ventilator uses a rotating cam arm and claims to deliver air to human breaths by squeezing a conventional bag-valve-mask (BVM). In this article, a very new ventilator design is suggested. A portable ventilator prototype is proposed and developed, and its control strategy and development are discussed in this article.