Biomechatronics System Design Laboratory

Biomechatronics system design laboratory is a part of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the Miami University, Oxford. Ohio.

Our expertise is on the development of high-performance computer-controlled electro-mechanical/Mechatronics systems that run based on control algorithms. Biomechatronics System Design Lab mainly focuses on rehabilitation robotics, computer supervised physical exercises, applications of IoT in the rehabilitation robotics sector.

The effectiveness of robot-assisted physical therapy at all stages of physical recovery and the capability of determining the recovery rate accurately make the robot a great tool in rehabilitation applications. The number of human lower or upper extremity disability patients are increasing fastly. To tackle this huge number of disabled individuals with limited resources is very challenging. Robot-assisted physical therapy is a great alternative. By combining different services in the form of IoT makes the rehabilitation robot more versatile and effective.

Biomechatronics lab has all the facilities to make a robot/device from scratches. Our lab studies the robot dynamical behavior, the effects of different control schemes including Adaptive control, Computed torque control, Model reference computed torque control, Linear Quadratic Controller, PID controller, Sliding mode control, etc. in controlling the robot. We design our robot in a CAD environment and fabricate using in-lab high-speed CNC machines. By using high-performance real-time control hardware and custom-developed software, the developed robot provides great effectiveness in the real application.