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Bionics
BNK Acad. year 2003/2004 Winter semester 6 credits
Bionics - fundamental terms and principles. Substitutive medicine, biocompatibility. Human body as a system, adaptation, homeostasis, control in living organisms, biological feedback. Infomational and control system of human organism. Fundamentals of genetics, genetic algorithms. Technical aspects of endocrine system, artificial pancreas. Neural system - electrical characteristics, measuring NS performance - EEG, relation between neural system and artifical neural nets. Input and output units - sensory organs, loads. Hearing - principles, measuring, cochlear endoprosthesis. Vision - principles, measuring, artificial eye. Skeletal muscles - principles and measuring their performance (EMG, ENG), artificial limbs. Cardivascular system - hemodynamics, electrical characteristics, ECG, extracorporeal blood circulation and artificial heart.
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Basic capability to interpret structure and performance of the human body subsystems from a technical standpoint. Capability to measure and interpret basic signals generated by human body (ECG, EEG, acoustically evoked potentials, EMG, etc.).
Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with basic technical and technological interpretation of structure and performance of selected subsystems of human body and applying the knowledge both to solving technical problems (genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, visual scene analysis, ...)and choice of the correct methodology for measuring properties and state of the described systems and/or their substitutes.
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Lab attendance is checked.