The Neuromechanics and Ergonomics lab at Brock University offers ~1500 sq feet of space and features state-of-the-art biomechanics, robotics, neurophysiology and ergonomics hardware and software, including:
Motion Capture
- 10 camera Vicon Vantage + Vero motion capture system
- Multiple Sony RX0II cameras for markerless motion capture
- 17 Xsens IMU sensors – MVNÂ Awinda + Metagloves by Manus
- 8 Qualisys Miqus video cameras
- Theia Markerless, Inc.
Electromyography
- 3 – 8 channel (24 channels total) Bortec AMT-8 EMG systems with an extended bandwidth for fine-wire EMG
- Delsys Trigno (mix of Quattro and Galileo Sensors)
Force Measurement
- Haptic wrist robot (WristBOT, Italian Institute of Technology)
- MIE Medical Research Ltd Grip Dynamometer (www.mie-uk.com/)
- Various load cells (http://www.interfaceforce.com/)
- 6 dof load cell
- Mark 10 Advanced Ergonomics Testing Kit
- 2 Force Plates
- NexGen Ergonomics Vibration Analysis ToolSet
Neurophysiological
- Cambridge Electronics Design (CED) 1402 Data acquisition hardware
- Bistim Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator – Magstim 200 Magnetic Stimulator (http://www.magstim.com/)
- Digitimer DS7A Constant Current Stimulator (http://www.digitimer.com/clinical/index.htm)
Analogue to Digital (A/D)
- Cambridge Electronic Design (Power 1401) data acquisition
- National Instruments A/D – NI USB-6363 32 Channel
- Vicon Lock + 64 channel
Software
- Visual 3D
- Matlab
- Labview
- Spike2
- Vibration Analysis ToolSet with Hand-Arm vibration analysis
- Theia
Images of our Equipment, Studies & Lab!
Scroll through some of the images taken from our research projects. This is work from the Holmes Lab and via other collaborations.