Diseño en SolidWorks de plataforma del sistema cardiovascular para ensayo de robots de navegación autónoma

This article presents an experimental platform of the cardiovascular system (CVS) designed in Solidworks and based on an electric model which describes the contraction dynamics of the heart as well as its cyclic and autonomous caracteristics. Depart from this model, previously generalized to include the dynamics of the left common carotid artery, a hydraulic model was developed emulating the behaviour of the CVS in that zone, been validated by the Matlab/Simulink tool. The designed platform is a representation of this hydraulic model, which objective is to test swimming robots of small dimensions and to allow the simulation of the conditions in which these robots would navigate in the human circulatory system.