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Bio Mechatronics

This document discusses biomechatronics, which integrates biology, mechanics, and electronics. It provides examples like Professor Hugh Herr attaching a mechanical fish to frog legs using electrical signals. Biomechatronic systems include human subjects, stimuli, sensors, signal processing, and feedback. Applications include prosthetics, robotics, medical imaging, and rehabilitation systems. Future possibilities involve targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation. While drawbacks include infection risks, benefits could restore impaired motor functions.

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Bio Mechatronics

This document discusses biomechatronics, which integrates biology, mechanics, and electronics. It provides examples like Professor Hugh Herr attaching a mechanical fish to frog legs using electrical signals. Biomechatronic systems include human subjects, stimuli, sensors, signal processing, and feedback. Applications include prosthetics, robotics, medical imaging, and rehabilitation systems. Future possibilities involve targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation. While drawbacks include infection risks, benefits could restore impaired motor functions.

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National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur

Biomechatronics
Anuj Bhardwaj
17302
❖ Bio mechatronics is an applied
Interdisciplinary science that aims to
integrate mechanical elements, electronics
and parts of biological organisms.
About
‘Biomechatronics’ ❖ It includes the aspects of biology,
mechanics and electronics & also
encompasses the field of Robotics and
Neuroscience.
❖ Hugh Herr, a professor at
MIT, excised the muscles
of frog legs, to attach a
mechanical fish and by
pulsing electrical current
About through the muscle
‘Biomechatronics’ fibers, he caused the fish
to swim. The goal of
these experiments is to
make devices that
interact with human
muscle, skeleton and
❖ Bio mechatronics mimics how the human body
works
❖ For example, four different steps must occur to
be
❏ able
First,to lift thefrom
impulses footthetomotor
walk.center of the brain are
Working Principle sent to the foot and leg muscles.
for a ❏ Next the nerve cells in the feet send information,
Biomechatronic providing feedback to the brain, enabling it to adjust
the muscle groups or amount of force required to
system walk across the ground.
❏ The leg's muscle spindle nerve cells then sense and
send the position of the floor back up to the brain.
❏ Finally, when the foot is raised to step, signals are
sent to muscles in the leg and foot to set it down.
❖ A human subject

❖ Stimulus

❖ Sensors and transducers


Components of
Biomechatronics ❖ Signal processing systems
system
❖ Recording and display

systems

❖ Feedback elements
❖ Biosensors detect the user's "intentions." Depending
upon the impairment and type of device, this
information can come from the user's nervous and/or
muscle system.
❖ Mechanical sensors measure information about the
Working of device (such as limb position, applied force and load)
and relate to the biosensor and/or the controller.
Biomechatronics
❖ The controller is interfaces the user's nerve or muscle
system system and the device. It relays and/or interprets
intention commands from the user to the actuators of
the device.
❖ The actuator is an artificial muscle that produces
force or movement. The actuator can be a motor that
aids or replaces the user's native muscle depending
Working of
Biomechatronics
system
Prosthetic Orthotic
Replacement of body Support of body
parts and/or functions functions
Biomechatronic
systems
❖ Bio-interfaces for diagnostics and control
❖ Robotics for high-speed screening and analysis
❖ Passive and active prosthetic limbs and joints
Applications of ❖ Sensing and biofeedback
Biomechatronic ❖ Medical imaging and diagnostics
systems ❖ Rehabilitation systems
❖ Neural and brain stimulation
❖ Tele and robot-assisted surgery
❖ Implants
❖ An example of a bio
mechatronic system is
a smart version of
white cane called
smart cane.
Smart Cane ❖ Smart cane produce
stimulus that is
triggered in response
to obstacles around a
blind person to
prevent him or her
❖ Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
❖ Targeted Sensory Reinnervation
❖ Exoskeleton

Future
Possibilities
❖ The major drawbacks to bio mechatronics
devices are the possibility of infection (as non-
biological parts are implanted into living tissue)
Drawbacks pain and discomfort.
❖ Although improved, they still face mechanical
obstructions, suffering from inadequate battery
power, consistent mechanical reliability, and
neural connections between prosthetics and the
Despite the fact of bio mechatronics having many
advantages, they do have some drawbacks.

However, the promises of this new technology


Conclusion provide hope that those individuals with impaired
motor function will be able to have restored
functions that mimic normal human movements
and, perhaps, make them better, stronger or faster
than before.
❖ Wikipedia

Reference ❖ Introduction to Biomechatronics,

Graham M. Brooker

❖ www.media.mit.edu

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