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Week 5 Flashcards

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What is Mechatronic Engineering?

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The synergistic combination of mechanical, electronic, computer, and control systems along with a dash of systems engineering.

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Who invented the term mechatronics?

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Japanese engineer in the 1969, by combining the words Mechanisms + Electronics.

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What is different about the term mechatronics today?

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Integrating mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacturer of products and processes.

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What is Biomechatronics?

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A multidisciplinary field that combines the intelligence and efforts of engineers, researchers and clinicians from many disciplines including biology, biomedical and biomechanical engineering, human-machine interaction, rehabilitation medicine, prosthetics and orthotics.!

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What does Biomechatronics integrate?

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Biomechatronics uses biologically inspired design to integrate the mechanical parts with biological system, e.g. robot fish

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What is the neuromuscular system composed of?

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nervous control systems and the muscular and skeletal systems

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The central nervous system process?

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sensory information, generates the motor commands, and sends the motor commands to skeletal muscle via the efferent division to execute the effectors.!

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Is there a feedback mechanism in the NMS system?

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yes

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What would a Biomechatronic system look like?

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integrate mechanics, embedded control and human-machine interaction (HMI), sensor, actuators and energy supply

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What is not only the most complex and least understood, but it is the the most difficult to interface with.

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The human element

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What does not always produce the same results?

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Repeated sets of inputs

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In the typical biomechatronic system, what components can be identified?

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A Human Subject 
Stimulus or Actuation 
Transducers and Sensors 
Signal Conditioning Elements 
Recording and Display 
Feedback Elements
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What makes biomechatronics particularly interesting compared with other mechatronic systems

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the diversity and complexity of human physiology.

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What can be used as a control variable since EMG signals reflect the activities of the muscles?

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Myoelectric control is related to the subject’s intention

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Wgat have researches used to continuously control exoskeleton robots that can be worn by human subjects as an assistive device.

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EMG signals

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what provides a new approach to learn the mechanism of cerebral plasticity as well as to assist the rehabilitation process

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brain-control interface (BCI), using electroencephaolography (EEG) as control signal

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What better improved on walking speed and more independent walking ability than subjects receiving conventional gait therapy?

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Robot-assisted gait training and robot-assisted gait treatment augmented with FES on subacute stroke subjects

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The motor improvements of what were better than those with CPM by retraining and post training evaluations?

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the active-assisted robot treatments

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How can he process of stimulation be introduced?

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a feedback element.

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Sources of stimuli can encompass what?

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any modality that has an effect on the human element.

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What devices that convert physiological outputs into signals that can be used?

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Transducers and Sensors

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what amplifies electrical signals?

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sensors

23
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How can sensors be converted?

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chemical concentration, temperature, pressure, or flow into electrical signals that can be further processed.

24
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Interfacing to the human body, sensors must be what?

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biocompatible, flexible, and extremely robust to survive in the aggressive internal environment, while surface sensors, particularly electrodes, must be able to form a compatible and relatively stable conductive interface across the skin

25
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Signal processing involves what?

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modification of the electrical signal to some form that is more useful.

26
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modification of the electrical signal involves what?

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amplification and filtering to extract salient features and the conversion of the analog signal to a digital equivalent that allows for the application of complex algorithms to obtain subtler characteristics

27
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In many cases, the biomechatronic device functions to monitor what?

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a physiological process or response

28
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it may be important to display what, when monitoring a physiological process or response

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the information in a form that is easy to interpret, or to store it for later analysis.

29
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What are examples of monitoring systems?

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the 12- lead electrocardiograph, pneumotachographs and sphygmomanometers.

30
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In a closed-loop control application, any stimulus or excitation signal is conditioned by what?

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the processed outputs of one or a number of sensors monitoring the physiological process.

31
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what includes further processing through control elements?

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The link that connects the sensing output back to the stimulus

32
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This feedback can be used to close what?

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an external loop or one that operates through the human being.

33
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When and Who was OS developed?

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1969 by Bell Labs in conjunction with M.I.T.

34
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What is Unix commonly used for?

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Universities and Academia

35
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Who started using UNIX?

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Graduates began using UNIX at their jobs

36
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What was Microsoft DOS designed for?

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Designed to be an operating system that could run on any 8086-family computer

37
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What occurred in the 1980s?

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Microsoft DOS was main operating system for personal computers

38
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What does CLI stand for?

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Command line interface

39
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When do you use rm command?

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delete files

40
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Can you retrieve files again after using rm?

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no

41
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What should you use carefully when deleting files?

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use wildcards carefully

42
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What is scripting language?

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or script language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that can interpret (rather than compile) and automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator.

43
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When do you use triple double-quotes?

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for multi-line strings or strings than contain both ‘ and “ inside of them

44
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What is meaningful in Python?

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Whitespace especially indentation and placement of newlines

45
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When do you Use a newline?

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to end a line of code

46
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When do you Use \?

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when must go to next line prematurely

47
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What is not used to mark blocks of code in Python?

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No braces { }

48
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The first line with less indentation is where?

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outside of the block

49
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The first line with more indentation starts what?

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a nested block

50
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what appears at the start of a new block?

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a colon

51
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What do you Start comments with?

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– the rest of line is ignored

52
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Can you include a “documentation string” as the first line of any new function or class that you define.

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yes

53
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Names in coding are what?

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case sensitive and cannot start with a number

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