Exam and Seminar Project Presentations

Biorobotics is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience and machine learning. Biorobotic systems serve as a tool to investigate principles of biological movement generation and as a basis for biomimetic development of novel technologies. Application fields are e.g., mobile robotics, prosthetics, assistive devices and rehabilitation robotics.

In the lecture, we give an overview of the field. Topics cover are e.g., robotics concepts, biological movement generation, motors and artificial muscles, bio-inspired sensors, soft-robotics, rehabilitation robotics.

In the seminar, students will get hand-son experience in builidng their own small biorobotic systems, arduino-based controllers, biorobotic computer simulations, and the will explore neuroprosthetic concepts.

1) Students will learn to identify and understand new concepts in biorobotics and connect them to key concepts from related interdisciplinary fields.
2) Students will be able to discuss relevant aspects of new concepts in biorobotics in relation to the concepts of the field
3) Students will create basic examples of biorobotic systems with contributions in design, hardware, and control and present the results in a short scientific video podcasts.

Some prior knowledge in the following topics is highly recommended.
You will not need to know details about these topics, but if you read terms and don’t know what they mean, it is highly recommended that you read up on them before the beginning of the lecture.
- you should be familiar with the basic physics terms like forces, torques, rigid bodies, equations of motion (e.g., for the free fall of a point mass).
- mechanical elements like springs, dampers and simple mathematical equations describing their forces
- basic electrical circuits terms like voltage, current, power, resistance, inductance
- the concept of differential equations