@inproceedings{989ca0535f784a43b89f3622e0e80e00,
title = "Mosquito Staging Apparatus for Producing PfSPZ Malaria Vaccines",
abstract = "This paper describes the design of a fully automated apparatus to dispense mosquitoes into isolate units. This automation system consists of several process units including (1) facilitating the water vortex with a fan-shape rotor to gently transport the mosquitoes to the sorting slides with a conical geometry, (2) exploiting slides to guide mosquitoes to turntables driven by gears one by one, and (3) reorienting the mosquito until its proboscis points outward along the radial direction of the cone, aided by computer vision. This automation system serves as the first processing stage for collecting mosquito salivary glands. The sporozoites contained in the mosquito glands are the source material to produce Sanaria's first generation PfSPZ vaccines. The Mosquito Staging System can dramatically enhance the mass production of Malaria Vaccine which is essential to prevent the propagation of Malaria.",
keywords = "Automation, Design, Malaria Vaccine, Medical Robot",
author = "Mengdi Xu and Shengnan Lyu and Yingtian Xu and Can Kocabalkanli and Chirikjian, {Brian K.} and Chirikjian, {John S.} and Joshua Davis and Kim, {Jin Seob} and Iulian Iordachita and Taylor, {Russell H.} and Chirikjian, {Gregory S.}",
note = "Funding Information: Thanks go to Ms. Jing Jia, Ms. Xia Wu, Mr. Bolin He and Mr. Mark Shifman for their discussions and help developing the preliminary apparatus. This work is supported in part by NIH SBIR grant 1R44AI134500-01 and in part by Johns Hopkins University internal funds. This work is with the collaboration of Sanaria, Inc. Rockville MD, USA. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019 ; Conference date: 22-08-2019 Through 26-08-2019",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1109/COASE.2019.8843147",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "443--449",
booktitle = "2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019",
}