User:TsunamicScroll/Engineering cybernetics

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1960's - An example of engineering cybernetics is a device designed in the mid-1960s by General Electric Company. Referred to as a CAM (cybernetic anthropomorphous machine), this machine was designed for use by the US Army ground troops. Operated by one man in a "cockpit" at the front end, the machine's "legs" steps were duplicates of the leg movements of the harnessed operator.

A common use includes the treatment of neurological disorders with the purposeful application of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), or more precisely the use of functional electrical stimulation (FES).^[1] The most common used therapy is the 1980s introduced FES-cycling methods.^[1] Additional research is attempting to implement applications from control systems to improve FES-cycling.^[1] New research is being conducted using computer-controlled FES, where the musculoskeletal system is viewed as cybernetic system.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dixon, Warren; Bellman, Matthew (2016-09-01). "Cycling". Mechanical Engineering. 138 (09): S3 – S7. doi:10.1115/1.2016-Sep-4. ISSN 0025-6501.

[:0-1] Dixon, Warren; Bellman, Matthew (2016-09-01). "Cycling". Mechanical Engineering. 138 (09): S3 – S7. doi:10.1115/1.2016-Sep-4. ISSN 0025-6501.

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