A Six Degree of Freedom Extrusion Bioprinter

verfasst von

Leon Budde, Sontje Ihler, Svenja Spindeldreier, Tobias Lücking, Tim Meyer, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Eberhard Bodenschatz

Abstract

Motivated by a high demand, the research interest in personalized artificial tissues is steadily increasing. Combining knowledge of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering, the research field of 3D bioprinting emerged. This work presents a six-degree-of-freedom mechanically actuated extrusion bioprinter within a sterile working environment. The system is based on an off-the-shelf robot arm and a custom modular printhead end-effector. Advanced dexterity is achieved by the six degrees of freedom, enabling printing on non-planar surfaces. The printhead is designed for co-axial extrusion of three fluids but can easily be adapted for different number of fluids or different extrusion flows. The custom controller of the system is implemented within the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework and plans the trajectory based on a path given in a custom GCode dialect. Since the robot is clean-room-certified, can be sterilized using hydrogen peroxide steam, and is placed within a sterile hood, the setup enables working under sterile conditions.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Mechatronische Systeme

Externe Organisation(en)

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG)
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung eV
Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering

Band

8

Seiten

137-140

Anzahl der Seiten

4

Publikationsdatum

02.09.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Biomedizintechnik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2022-1036 (Zugang: Offen)