Guillermo Herrera-Arcos
On a quest to restore mobility.
I'm a researcher at the Biomechatronics Group within the MIT Media Lab and a graduate student at MIT.
I'm the co-founder of Prothesia, a company developing the first digital fabrication laboratory for orthotic devices . I'm also partner at INDI, a company developing pediatric robotic exoskeletons.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
3D-Printed Orthotic Devices
Prothesia and Tecnologico de Monterrey
January 2019 - Present
Software Tools for Medical Devices Design
Prothesia and Harvard Medical School
July 2019 - Present
Computer Control for Powered Prosthesis
MIT
Summer 2018
Worked on intrinsic control for a 1 DOF ankle prosthesis.
Cubic spline transitions for a finite state machine running an impedance controller.
Torque trajectory tracking with speed adaptation for level ground walking.
Photo credit: Matthew Orr.
Neuromuscular Modeling
MIT
Summer 2018
Worked on neuromuscular modeling for bionic prosthesis controller design. Performing optimizations and physics-based simulations.
ALICE Pediatric Exoskeleton
INDI and Tec de Monterrey
Summer 2017 - 2018
Developed the first pediatric open-source robotic exoskeleton.
It was made using 3D printing technology, common electronics and novel manufacturing processes.
Hip and knee actuation.
Accelerometer-based position control algorithm.
Focused on being low-cost and easy to build.
Check it out on Hackaday
CHIEF Exoskeleton
INDI
May 2016 - December 2016
Lower-limb robotic exoskeleton focused on paraplegia patients.
Accelerometer-based position control algorithm.
Hip, knee, and ankle actuation.
Presented in Cybathlon 2016.
Biomechanics analysis with VICON
Tec de Monterrey
June 2016 - July 2016
Biomechanics analysis using VICON motion capture system to determine kinematics and dynamics of upper and lower-limb joints. Used for exoskeleton design. Data collection and processing.
Stroke and SCI clinical protocol
Tec de Monterrey
April 2016 - July 2016
Clinical protocol with lower-limb robotic exoskeleton technology (H2, Spain) for stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI).
Book chapter: Exoesqueletos Robóticos para Rehabilitación y Asistencia de Pacientes con Daño Neurológico .
Neuroscience (BCI) research
Univ. of Houston and Tec de Monterrey
April 2016 - October 2017
EEG study at non-laboratory environments focused on understanding brain signals during aesthetic experiences with machine learning algorithms. Publication Dataset
Design of an EEG headset for concussion detection. 3D modeling and deep learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) for signal decoding.
BCI Mixed-Reality strategy game
Univ. of Houston
September 2017
Developed a BCI mixed-reality collaborative strategy game. Users constrol a spherical robot (sphero) with EEG signals (P300 paradigm) while avoiding 3D obstacles.
1st place IEEE Brain Hackathon at Valencia, Spain.
MORE PROJECTS
Feeding Robot
Univ. of Houston (Robotics)
Fall 2017
HMI System for robot training
Tec de Monterrey (Sensors and Actuators)
Spring 2017
Human-Machine Interface System for industrial robot training.
Back-end software: python and C.
Hardware: Arduino and Myo (EMG).
ECG System
Tec de Monterrey (Applied Electronics)
Fall 2016
Developed an analog circuit for ECG signal acquisition.
Series-Elastic Actuated Mechanism
Tec de Monterrey (Computer Control)
Spring 2018
Developed a 1 DOF ankle prosthesis with Series-Elastic Actuation for force detection and gait simulation.
More videos:
MASP: Microfluidics Analog Sensing Platform
Tec de Monterrey (Embedded Systems)
Spring 2018
Developed an analog sensing platform for microfluidics research. It processes sensor data with FreeRTOS and transmits it via Bluetooth to a python application that plots the data.
Image-based drone flight control
Tec de Monterrey (Computer Vision)
Spring 2018
The computer performs image processing and classification to give flight commands to the drone. It also does path planning to avoid obstacles.
Vision-based Robot Control
Univ. of Houston (Robotics)
Fall 2017
Feedback control using a camera to track the centroid of different images.
EXPERIENCE
Biomechatronics Group
September 2019 - Present
MIT Media Lab
Prothesia
January 2019 - Present
Co-Founder
Prothesia is developing the first digital fabrication laboratory for orthotic devices. By using 3D scanning, software alignment, and digital manufacturing, the company is delivering extreme adequate fitting,more affordable, and 100% personalized orthotic devices to children with cerebral palsy.Check out our website
INDI Ingeniería y Diseño
May 2018 - Present. Partner
June 2016 - May 2018. Development Leader
INDI is a human-machine interface studio working on technology for human experiences.
Check out our website
National Robotics Laboratory
April 2016 - May 2019
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Undergraduate Research assistant
Center for Extreme Bionics
May 2018 - August 2018
MIT Media Lab
Summer Research Intern
Laboratory for Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems
May 2016 - December 2017
University of Houston
Undergraduate Research assistant
EDUCATION
MIT
September 2019 - Present
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
University of Houston
Fall 2017
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Courses: Robotics, Operating Systems, Senior Design Project, and Neuroscience Research.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
August 2014 - May 2019
BS Digital Systems and Robotics Engineering
-Courses: physics, math, differential equations, linear algebra, circuits, electronics, digital systems, computer architecture, microcontrollers, signal analysis, sensors and actuators, control theory, applied robotics, programming, operating systems, parallel computing, automatas.
-Online: Machine Learning (Stanford), Underactuaded Robotics (MIT)
-Co-creator of Robostarter robotics workshop
PRESS
Computer Control for Powered Prostheses
CONECTA - Tecnologico de Monterrey
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Tec Review
Pediatric Powered Exoskeleton
Hackaday
Brain-Computer Interfaces
IEEE Brain
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Houston Methodist
Low-Cost Orthoses
El Financiero by Bloomberg
Low-Cost Orthoses
Pioneer Blog
Low-Cost Orthoses
MIT D-Lab Blog
Low-Cost Orthoses
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