AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This unit will cover the general principles for design and development of wearable devices for biomedical applications (diagnosis and monitoring of functions). This includes sensors, actuators and micro-controller programming

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

This unit intends to provide students with the essential tools to design wearable devices for medical applications.

At the end of this unit the student will be able to identify the correct sensor and/or actuator for a given application, and to design and implement an embedded system for signal acquisition and/or device control.

TEACHING METHODS

Combination of lectures, lab activities and project work

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Microcontroller programming techniques 

The Arduino hardware family and IDE

Actuators types and actuator control

Sensors sensor types and signal acquisition 

Interrupts and timers 

Communication protocols: serial, I2C, ISP, Bluetooth

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

VITTORIO SANGUINETI (President)

DAVIDE ANCONA

GIORGIO DELZANNO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Projectwork (indivuduals or pairs), common to both units

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Assessment will consider originality of solution, technical quality, ease of use

Exam schedule