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This is the name of UGA’s live bulldog mascot.
What is Uga?
This field studies how mechanical principles apply to biological systems like muscles, bones, and joints.
What is Biomechanics?
These signals from muscles are used to control myoelectric prosthetics.
What are EMG signals?
This movement rotates the forearm so the palm faces downward.
What is pronation?
This CAD software is commonly used by engineering students to design mechanical parts and prosthetic components.
What is Fusion 360/Autodesk CAD?
This historic campus landmark is traditionally avoided by freshmen to prevent bad luck before graduation.
What is the The Arch?
The primary goal of the Bulldog Biomechanics research group is to study, design, and improve these devices for the upper limb.
What are prosthetic and orthotic devices?
Raw EMG signals must undergo this step to remove noise before they can be used.
What is signal preprocessing?
This movement decreases the angle between two body parts.
What is flexion?
This programming platform is often used with EMG sensors and motor drivers to control prosthetic prototypes.
What is an Arduino?
UGA is the nation's oldest public university, gaining its charter in this year.
What is 1785?
This project focuses on improving a purely mechanical prosthetic hand.
What is the Mechanical Hand Project?
This mathematical technique analyzes signals in both time and frequency.
What is wavelet analysis?
This term refers to measurements of the human body used when designing devices like prosthetics, tools, and exoskeletons.
What is anthropometric data?
This manufacturing process builds parts layer-by-layer and is heavily used for prosthetic prototypes.
What is 3D printing?
This decade includes two of Georgia’s four national championship wins, making it the most successful decade in program history.
What is the 2020s?
UGA won back-to-back in 2021 and 2022
This project designs a wearable device that assists a weakened limb rather than replacing it.
What is an exoskeletal orthosis?
This transform is commonly used to analyze signal frequencies.
What is the Fourier transform?
When designing a robotic or prosthetic hand, engineers use anthropometric data to estimate this distance between joints that determines the mechanical linkage lengths.
What is segment length (or joint-to-joint distance)?
This programming language is commonly used for robotics, signal processing, and machine learning in biomechanics projects.
What is Python?
UGA’s official motto is written in Latin is Docere, Servire, Inquirere and means what in English?
To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.
This project develops EMG-controlled prosthetic hands.
What is the Myoelectric Hand Project?
This advanced control approach uses statistical models or neural networks to predict muscle intent.
What is machine learning control?
The human hand contains this many bones.
What is 27?
This type of sensor detects electrical signals produced by muscles and is used to control myoelectric prosthetics.
What is an EMG sensor?