MERITORIOUS AUTONOMOUS

UNIVERSITY OF PUEBLA
School of Electronics Sciences
Advanced Mechatronics

MECHATRONICS IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

AND BIOMECHATRONICS

Introduction

Mechatronic systems have many benefits and big application

areas. In consumer electronic, like CD player until packing
machines such as food and improvements of modern automotive
ABS, stabilization systems. A clear example of mechatronic
system is the CD player.

The CD-player

Biomechatronics
Recently the BMTI of the University of Twente has started a new
research program in biomechatronics.
Recently it was decided to start a program of developing mechatronic
systems to support elderly and disabled persons.

An example of work in this area is the development of new

wheelchairs. Originally, wheelchairs were pure mechanical, human
powered devices. Modern wheelchairs are not only electrically
driven, but can be controlled by means of joystick.

Because there are many different handicaps the flexibility that could
be obtained by a mechatronic design of these wheelchairs would be
of great help to adjust the wheelchair to the personal needs of the
user, even if these user needs would change over time.

The aging population demands for more care for elderly

people in the coming decades. If tools could be developed that
enable these people to stay in their homes on their own,
rather than moving to nursing homes, their quality of life can
be improved and the cost of professional care reduced.
It can be an area of application of home robots, as well as of
robotic systems that, for instance, can give a patient a glass of
water or feed someone. Such robots will have properties that
completely differ from those of conventional, industrial
robots.

Neural Networks
ADVANCED MECHATRONICS

Neural Networks

Artificial neural networks (commonly referred to as RNA or English as "ANN" 1)

are a paradigm of learning and automatic processing inspired by the way the
nervous system of animals works. It is an interconnection of neurons that work
together to produce an output stimulus. In artificial intelligence is often referred
to as neural networks or neural networks.

The principle of a learning feedforward mechanism can be explained with.

A neural network can be applied to obtain such aperfect model automatically.

Because in the ideal case the controller output shouldbe zero, this signal is an
indication how well the neural network performs and it canbe used to train the
neural network.

The learning is typically finished after a certain reference trajectory

hasbeen followed 5-10 times.

If the network is too big, stability problems may occur because the
networkwill learn stochastic variations, rather than the inherent properties
of the process.