Sensor based Autonomous Medical Nanorobots A cure to Demyelination

— Nowadays medical science is more and more improving with the blessings of new scientific discoveries. Nanotechnology is such a field which is changing vision of medical science. New automated procedures are being discovered with new aspects of self guided nanorobots. Nanorobot is an excellent tool for future medicine. We can envision a day when you could inject billions of these nanorobots that would float around in your body. Nanorobots could carry and deliver drugs into defected cells. These nanorobots will be able to repair tissues, clean blood vessels and airways, transform our physiological capabilities, and even potentially counteract the aging process [1]. Many scientist working on this bright field of nanorobotics specially on Alzheimer disease and cancer treatments [2]. The researchers are also working on nanomanipulation, nanopositioning and also on the nano-level control systems [3]. In this paper we are going to address a disease called dymyelination and propose a nanorobotic control system for the cure. Demyelination is a disease of the nervous system where the protecting layer of neurons called myelin sheath is damaged. This disease hampers the conduction of signals in the affected nerves, causing impairment in sensation, movement, cognition, or other functions depending on which nerves are involved. This paper describes an innovative approach for the development of nanorobots that use neural network for identifying and repairing the damaged, demyelinated neurons. Firstly, the disease it self will be addressed to understand the later work easily, then a control system for automated nanorobots to cure dymyelination will be described. In later portion the proposed control system will be simulated to show the stability and usefulness of proposed design. The nanorobots operate in a virtual environment with nerve signals carrying nerve impulses. This paper also presents the control and the simulation of nerve-borne nanorobots to find and repair the affected nerves.

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