Title :
Automatic deploying system for single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines
Author :
Zhangjun Song ; Xiaodan Yang ; Jian Wang ; Haiyan Xue ; Jianwei Zhang
Author_Institution :
Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Robot. & Intell. Syst., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Abstract :
The single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines have been accepted by the patients and have great market in hospitals recently. As information-based equipment for deploying single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines, the automatic deploying system is in great demand in hospitals. An automatic deploying system for single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines is developed in this paper. It includes the package unit, transmission unit, medicine weighing and dispensing unit, human interface unit and drying unit. The article introduces the structure, control program and databases of the automatic deploying system. With this system, as long as the worker inputs the prescription, it can deploy medicines automatically. Weighing experiments to estimate the precision are conducted and its results show that the system has higher weighing precision compared to the method of volume-weighing used in other deploying system.
Keywords :
drugs; hospitals; packaging; pharmaceutical technology; production engineering computing; automatic deploying system; dispensing unit; drying unit; hospital; human interface unit; information-based equipment; medicine weighing unit; package unit; single-ingredient pellet formula; traditional Chinese medicine; transmission unit; Belts; Computers; DC motors; Educational institutions; Hospitals; Microcontrollers; Packaging;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739557