Konstruktion av provladdareför singelmolekyldetektor

• Main Author: Sundvall, Eddie
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Signaler och System 2010
• Subjects: provladdare; biomolekyl; automation; konstruktion; mikroprocessor; atmel; inbyggda system
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-150471

This report describes the development of a sample loader for my diploma work at Q-linea AB in Uppsala. The sample loader will replace the process of loading fluid samples into Q-linea’s instrument for biomolecule analysis. The earlier process was done by hand and was a time consuming and inefficient task. The work was initiated with a design phase where an overview of the system was created. The sample loader will be receiving text commands from a PC that coordinates all the subsystems like pumps and lasers on the analysis instrument. The commands will be translated by a microcontroller into the correct movement of the samples needed to load them. Most of the work was put down into developing the software responsible for handling communications and actuation of a couple of stepper motors. Lastly a circuit board was designed and manufactured, ready to be mounted into the existing instrument. The result was a working prototype which now is used in the daily work at Q-linea. It is subject for further development and in the future it will be shipped as a part of the finished biomolecular analysis instrument from Q-linea.