User:TsunamicScroll/Engineering cybernetics
Popular usage[edit]
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]