Myoelectric Signal Monitoring System

The Electromyography (EMG) is an important tool for gait analyzes and disorders diagnoses. Traditional methods involve equipment that can disturb the analyses, being gradually substituted by different approaches, like wearable and wireless systems. The cable replacement for autonomous systems demands for technologies capable of meeting the power constraints. This work presents the development of an EMG and kinematic data capture wireless module, designed taking into account power consumption issues. This module captures and converts the analog myoeletric signal to digital, synchronously with the capture of kinetic information. Both data are time multiplexed and sent to a PC via Bluetooth link. The work carried out comprised the development of the hardware, the firmware and a graphical interface running in an external PC. The hardware was developed using the PIC18F14K22, a low power family of microcontrollers. The link was established via Bluetooth, a protocol designed for low power communication. An application was also developed to recover and trace the signal to a Graphic User Interface (GUI), coordinating the message exchange with the firmware. Results were obtained which allowed validating the conceived system in static and with the subject performing short movements. Although it was not possible to perform the tests within more dynamic movements, it is shown that it is possible to capture, transmit and display the captured data as expected. Some suggestions to improve the system performance also were made.

Projeto de estruturas de um edifício

O trabalho a apresentar tem como objetivo a aplicação dos conceitos adquiridos academicamente ao longo de todo o curso em Engenharia Civil num projeto de estruturas de um edifício. Este estudo surge no decorrer de um estágio curricular desenvolvido na empresa Segropol – Sociedade de Engenharia, Projetos e Obras, Lda. A partir das plantas de arquitetura, o projeto foi desenvolvido essencialmente em 4 etapas: conceção estrutural, pré-dimensionamento, validação das soluções estruturais e elaboração de peças desenhadas e pormenores construtivos. Para a definição e obtenção das soluções estruturais de uma estrutura é essencial realizar um enquadramento de toda a regulamentação aplicável, de modo a que todas as disposições associadas à segurança e estabilidade de um edifício sejam cumpridas. A análise e dimensionamento dos elementos foi efetuada com recurso ao programa de cálculo automático CYPE. Apresentando esta empresa vários serviços na área da fiscalização, é abordado neste documento um levantamento de vistorias de um loteamento, agrupando as diferentes anomalias e irregularidades detetadas.

Abstract Timers and their Implementation onto the ARM Cor tex-M family of MCUs

Presented at Embed with Linux Workshop (EWiLi 2015). 4 to 9, Oct, 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Towards realistic core-failure-resilient scheduling and analysis

Presented at IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2015). 1 to 4, Dec, 2015. San Antonio, U.S.A..

Water jet based autonomous surface vehicle for coastal waters operations

This paper presents the design of low cost, small autonomous surface vehicle for missions in the coastal waters and specifically for the challenging surf zone. The main objective of the vehicle design described in this paper is to address both the capability of operation at sea in relative challenging conditions and maintain a very low set of operational requirements (ease of deployment). This vehicle provides a first step towards being able to perform general purpose missions (such as data gathering or patrolling) and to at least in a relatively short distances to be able to be used in rescue operations (with very low handling requirements) such as carrying support to humans on the water. The USV is based on a commercially available fiber glass hull, it uses a directional waterjet powered by an electrical brushless motor for propulsion, thus without any protruding propeller reducing danger in rescue operations. Its small dimensions (1.5 m length) and weight allow versatility and ease of deployment. The vehicle design is described in this paper both from a hardware and software point of view. A characterization of the vehicle in terms of energy consumption and performance is provided both from test tank and operational scenario tests. An example application in search and rescue is also presented and discussed with the integration of this vehicle in the European ICARUS (7th framework) research project addressing the development and integration of robotic tools for large scale search and rescue operations.

Projecto e implementação de um sistema para electrofiação controlado por computador

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Single operation multiple data - paralelismo de dados ao nível da sub-rotina

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática