14-22039 - Professional services for instrumentation and control for development of a rotating microfluidic platform (14-22039)

The project requires the development of the hardware as well as the control software (to be integrated in an existent platform) for managing valves, temperature control, rotation, camera imaging and provide a user-interface for the execution of pre-programmed recipes including rotational speed, acceleration, and deceleration times, activation of valves, temperature, etc. It also requires to build on our existing electronic and Labview-based software control platform for the control of existing devices to improve the level of control and dynamic feedback. It should add the following capabilities to the existing platform:

advanced electronic control on many independent electrodes, design of a custom enclosure and contacting system to connect electrically the chip, electronic real-time capacitive feedback on the droplet position, software-based verification of the success or failure of multiple droplet displacements, and real-time software-based control of the amplitude and frequency of the voltage.