Abstract
Abstract Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have become a viable alternative to heart transplantation in heart failure therapy. In clinical practice, rotary blood pumps used as LVADs are operated at a constant rotational speed and thus do not adapt to the varying demand of the patient. This paper presents a robust control approach for automatic adaptation of the blood pump speed to the blood flow demand of the patient’s body, which enables a defined load sharing between an LVAD and the native ventricle. Robust stability was checked using a detailed model of the human cardiovascular system with uncertainties that describe the most important native physiological control loops as well as a range of pathologies. The robust assistance controller was tested in an in vivo setup and was able to stabilize the cardiovascular system after myocardial infarction.
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