Description:

Background: Children with cerebral palsy often have Botox injections in their limbs to loosen their joints and provide better walking patterns and reaching motions. However this also means they lose some control of their muscles and hence need physiotherapy as well.

Aim: Use biomechanics and muscle modelling to understand what effects Botox has on muscles in order to help design new robot therapies.

Objectives:

1.       Model human upper limb biomechanics and muscle activity using existing software packages and experimental data

2.       Devise method for accounting for the effects of Botox and analyse its effect

3.       Simulate different robotic therapy regimes on the human to determine what type of therapy is best to follow Botox injections

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering

Categories

• Dynamics and Control
• Mechatronics

Supervisor

• Andrew McDaid

Team

Allocated (Not available for preferences)

Lab

Lab allocations have not been finalised