Automação e controle da caixa de pressão negativa de membros inferiores

Abstract

The use of equipment "lower body negative pressure box" (LBNP) is a instrument of great importance to the scientific community health sciences. Initially used for simulation of orthostatic stress in space agencies studies on the physiological performance, today it has a range of applications to be study. In mid-2002, a LBNP Box was developed at the Center for Microgravity Laboratory, but it became outdate and out of use.This work was done to modernize pneumatic, electrical, electronic systems and the application interface. The realized retrofit enables the equipment for research use in the area of Aerospace Medicine on orthostatic intolerance of the cardiovascular system. Auniversal process controller with PID control technique was used with a classical tuning control proposed in the first method of Ziegler and Nichols.