This report presents the design and manufacturing process of a bionic signal messagebroker (BSMB), intended to allow communication between implanted electrodes andprosthetic legs designed by Ossur. The BSMB processes and analyses the data intorelevant information to control the bionic device. The intention is to carry out eventdetection in the BSMB, where events in the muscle signal are matched to the events ofthe gait cycle (toe-o, stance, swing).The whole system is designed to detect muscle contraction via sensors implantedin residual muscles and transmit the signals wireless to a control unit that activatesassociated functions of a prosthetic leg. Two users, one transtibial and one transfemoral,underwent surgery in order to get electrodes implantable into their residual leg muscles.They are among the rst users in the world to get this kind of implanted sensors.A prototype of the BSMB was manufactured. The process took more time thanexpected, mainly due to the fact that it was decided to use a ball grid array (BGA)microprocessor in order to save space. That meant more complicated routing and higherstandards for the manufacturing of the board. The results of the event detection indicatethat the data from the implanted electrodes can be used in order to get sucient controlover prosthetic legs. These are positive ndings for users of prosthetic legs and shouldincrease their security and quality of life.It is important to keep in mind when the results of this report are evaluated that allthe testing carried out were only done on one user each.

This diploma thesis deals with a design and implementation of an embedded device (module), used to control a robotic manipulator. The module instructs servomotors of the manipulator to move according to the commands received via USB interface. The module consists of two double-sided printed circuit boards. The first one allows connection to the CAN bus, redundant and thus reliable power supply for servomotors as well as the whole module. The second board, compute oriented one, embeds powerful microcontroller used to communicate with the servomotors and to solve the kinematics tasks. As a part of the thesis a graphical user interface as well as a web-oriented interface were developed. Both interfaces allow full control of the manipulator. All the communicating buses, tools and methods used during the design and implementation phases of the work are described in the thesis. Finally, measurements proved improvement of the motion smoothness and response times in several orders of magnitude in comparison to the previous system.