Publications by Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

A novel soft cardiac assist device based on a dielectric elastomer augmented aorta: An in vivo study

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Francesco Clavica, Armando Matthieu Walter, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Silje Ekroll Jahren, Lorenzo Ferrari

Although heart transplant is the preferred solution for patients suffering from heart failures, cardiac assist devices remain key substitute therapies. Among them, aortic augmentation using dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) might be an alternative tech ...

2022

Energy Analysis of a Cardiac Assist Device based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuator through an Equivalent Electrical Circuit

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Francesco Clavica, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

Lumped parameter model and mock circulation loop are two tools commonly used in biomedical research to simulate cardiac system in order to study different assist devices. In this paper, a lumped parameter model is proposed to simulate a circulation loop. T ...

IEEE2021

Design and modelling of a tubular dielectric elastomer actuator with constrained radial displacement as a cardiac assist device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Armando Matthieu Walter, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

In this paper, we propose an improvement of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) based augmented aorta. The actuator is a multi-layered tubular DEA subject to the internal pressure of the blood. When activated in synchronisation with the heart, the DEA su ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Redefining Energy Density for an uniaxial Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

The dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) is a technology known to potentially provide high energy density (0.3 - 0.4 J.cm(-3)). However, in the literature, few demonstrations have been done to evaluate this figure. To well understand the ability of this tec ...

IEEE2021

Dielectric elastomer actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Morgan Almanza

A dielectric elastomer actuator (1) comprising: a plurality of polymer layer (2);a plurality of stretchable electrode layers (3), each polymer layer (2) being sandwiched between two electrode layers (3) so as to control the electric field within the polyme ...

2021

Feasibility of a Dielectric Elastomer Augmented Aorta

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Francesco Clavica, Morgan Almanza, David Moser

Although heart transplantation is a gold standard for severe heart failure, there is a need for alternative effective therapies. A dielectric‐elastomer aorta is used to augment the physiological role of the aorta in the human circulatory system. To this en ...

2021

Generative Adversarial Networks for Localized Vibrotactile Feedback in Haptic Surfaces

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Xiaotao Ren, Camilo Hernandez Mejia

Touch-screens are the most relevant interface in the context of human-computer interaction. Moreover, they are widely used as interaction means for digital musical instruments, where a complex action-perception loop is involved in the user experience. This ...

IEEE2021

Stretchable tubular device and use thereof as a counterpulsation device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Morgan Almanza

The present invention is related to a stretchable tubular device (1) comprising at least one layer (Lx) of a stretchable polymer, a power supply (2) and a set of electrodes (3a, 3b) connected to said power supply (2). The power supply can supply at least a ...

2021

Improved Electrical Behavior of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Armando Matthieu Walter, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEA) have been introduced two decades ago as a new soft actuator family. In the biomedical field, this technology is very interesting because the devices are similar to human muscles. The main interest of such technology is ...

IEEE2021

Effect of the Impact Contact Duration on Machine Learning Models for Impact Position Detection

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Camilo Hernandez Mejia

Touch-screens have become the most common way of interaction between humans and machines. Nevertheless, the lack of rich haptic-feedback on most of the devices limits the quality and effectivity of the interaction. To develop novel haptic feedback generati ...

2020