Model-Based Systems Engineering Applied to Trade-Off Analysis of Wireless Power Transfer Technologies for Implanted Biomedical Microdevices

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 9; p. 3201
• Main Authors: Martínez Rojas, Juan A., Fernández, José L., Sánchez Montero, Rocío, López Espí, Pablo Luis, Diez-Jimenez, Efren
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 05-05-2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Actuators; Efficiency; Energy consumption; Engineering; Heart rate; Heuristic; Medical equipment; medical MEMS; Microelectromechanical systems; Model-based systems; Systems engineering; trade-off analysis; Tradeoffs; Transplants & implants; Ultrasonic imaging; wireless power transfer
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s21093201

Decision-making is an important part of human life and particularly in any engineering process related to a complex product. New sensors and actuators based on MEMS technologies are increasingly complex and quickly evolving into products. New biomedical implanted devices may benefit from system engineering approaches, previously reserved to very large projects, and it is expected that this need will increase in the future. Here, we propose the application of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to systematize and optimize the trade-off analysis process. The criteria, their utility functions and the weighting factors are applied in a systematic way for the selection of the best alternative. Combining trade-off with MBSE allow us to identify the more suitable technology to be implemented to transfer energy to an implanted biomedical micro device.