| IEM9000 Physiology and Technology - part 1: Biomimetics |
| code of the course | IEM9000 |
| name of course in Est. | Tehnoloogia ja füsioloogia I: Biomimeetika |
| name of course in Engl. | Physiology and Technology I: Biomimetics |
| name of course in Russ. | Fiziologija i tehnologija I: Biomimetika |
| acad. hours per week | 5,0 |
| lectures | 1,0 |
| laboratory hours | 0,0 |
| exercising (seminar) | 4,0 |
| credit points | 5,0 |
| form of testing | E |
| semester | autumn and spring |
| annotation |
Principles of functioning of the biological systems (physiology) and their elements (sensory, control, actuating and communicating organs). Senses and feelings and their information content. Cognition, analysis, and information transmitting ability. Memory and thinking. Information interchange (visual, speech), man-machine dialog. Language and coding. Data acquisition capacity and transmission speed. Informational and energetical characterisation of technical systems. Bionics. Neuron nets and learning systems. Microcomputers as electronic analogs of neural systems. Intuitive and fuzzy logic. Fuzzy-principle in control of biological and technical systems. Problematics of creating the biosystems or the electronic substitutes of their parts (cardiac pacemakers, hearing aids and cochlear implant, etc.). Reproduction and production. Biotechnology and gene technology. Micro- and nano-technology. Microactuators. |
| textbooks |
J.D.Bronzino (ed.), The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, IEEE Press - CRC Press, 1995 (in the TTU Libr. VB-79616, in the MESEL's Libr.) M.C.K.Khoo, Physiological Systems. Analysis, Simulation, and Estimation, IEEE Press, 2000 (in the MESEL's Libr.) |
| 1st ..... subj. | |
| 2nd ..... subj. | |
| Lecturers | professor Mart Min, sen.-researcher Toomas Parve |