Welcome to the Arm Rehabilitation Team Blog

 This is the official blog for the EGR401 Capstone Team for the Arm Rehabilitation Project. Posts will be made here as progress is made on our project.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 3 (Final)

Image
Strategy Brainstorming For this week we did a lot of brainstorming and coming up with strategies that could allow us to achieve our goal and followed our problem definition. Raw Strategy Generation Below are the raw pictures of these strategies Strategy Organization After coming up with the strategies (20 total), they were organized in a MindMap (seen below) Final 3 Strategies For an in-depth listing of the merits for each strategy, visit the following doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14g-M1KH7IzcLxc8TfiJ-wXIPO8q18UfPxt_HxRvvUKs/edit?usp=sharing Tabletop device that provides resistance in game-like format Fluid Resistance Chamber Track Patient Activity/Performance (Hands Off) + Therapist Alert  Concept Brainstorming After coming up with strategies we moved onto making 40 different concepts for the best 3 strategies, totaling 120 in the end. Raw Concept Generation Below are the photos from the brainstorming session with the following color scheme: Black: Tabletop Strate...
Read more

Week 0

Image
Start of Second Semester   This week was the start of the second semester and focused on the mechanics and graphics of the program. Program Display (Elijah) Established a final theme for the GUI , and developed a second more straightforward theme to account for different audiences . Created the ability to use the program without a motor to allow for non -motor issue troubleshooting . Motor inputs are set to 0 (as seen in demo ) Linkage Forces Math (Sean) Checked Dr. Kim's math for solving the (x,y) coordinates of the end of arm Checked Dr. Kim's math for Torque required to produce a force at the end of the arm. Was going to ask Dr. Kim some questions but I became sick, so will do that Thursday. Handle Redesign(Nathan) Handle Redesigned for different heights. Handle size and material reduced. (Gavin)
Read more

Week 4

Image
  Module Brainstorming For this week we did a lot of brainstorming and coming up with the different modules the device will consist of and the possible solutions for each area. Raw Module Generation Below is the final set of modules defined by the team: The textual list of the modules is as follows: Gantry Movement Kinematic Data Acquisition User Interface / User Experience Motor Controller / Motor Selection Handle Ergonomics Power Electronics / Distribution Computing (Added post-photo) Note: The module "Physical Display" was scrapped due to establishing a monitor will suffice and does not need to be an entire module. Note: The module "Table" was put on hold for future evaluation, as the module primarily involved placement of the device in respect to the table rather than different objects or tools Module Organization After coming up with the modules, at least 10 different solutions for each model were brainstormed.  Below is the set of photos for each module area (...
Read more