Introduction to Biomedical Engineering

The course is covering the practical basics of almost everything that a modern biomedical engineer is required to know: electronics, control theory, microcontrollers (Arduino), and high-level programming (MATLAB). All covered disciplines do not require any prior knowledge except university-level mathematics and physics.

By the end of the course, the students will be able to practically understand and design electronic systems for electrophysiological signal acquisition, connect and program the microcontroller, organise the data transmission between a controller and PC, process the acquired signal and control a simple robot with the acquired signal in real-time.

The course is also providing a platform from which the students can improve their skills further by simply adding more complicated systems and experimenting with more advanced control paradigms.

Although the course is aimed at engineers, it will be also suitable for anyone who is interested in modern R&D as it teaches the practical concepts which are employed by almost any engineering environments around the world involved in designing and prototyping of new ideas, both in academia and industry.

The course includes four modules. As part of this course, the following subsections will be available to you:

• Video-lectures. Each topic of the module contains one or several video lectures that reveal the topic.
• Practice. You'll have 3 authorial practices.
• Tests. 
• Final Task.
• Final Test.

Modules

1. Electronics
2. Control theory
3. Real-time Embedded Systems (Arduino)
4. High-level programming and complex control (MATLAB)

What will you learn:

• How to design and analyse the electronics related to the weak signal acquisition, particularly electrophysiology
• How to analyse electro-mechanical systems and design the closed-loop controllers for them
• How to code in Arduino for real-time control applications
• How to code in MATLAB for advanced signal processing