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Reconvening after the winter break, we are now ready to start testing our prototype designs. This past week, we combed through our designs to create a bill of materials for each part. Our goal is to build crude prototypes to evaluate the overall effectiveness of each idea, allowing us to pursue the truly best design. While we wait for our …
For week 10 of our project, we focused on compiling the lab report as requested by our advisor. At our weekly group meeting, we created a Google drive file so that all group members could edit the report simultaneously. We began by first identifying the background of our project. In brief, our project is structured around the fact that as …
For week 8, our group generated calculations for each of our designs. The calculation parameters and equations varied for each design. For example, for our piston-rod-mass perturbation system design, the parameters consisted of the rod length, mass, and force exerted by the piston on the mass. During our meeting, we shared the calculations we obtained for our own individual design, …
For week 6 of our project, our advisor, Professor Reinkensmeyer, held a “project status” meeting for the rehab robotics teams. In preparation for the meeting, we composed a PowerPoint presentation that included our hand drawn sketches along with the pros and cons of each design. We also briefly included the objective of our project. During the presentation, we received feedback …
Continuing off our previous week’s brainstorming session, we expanded on several designs by creating detailed sketches and notes for every idea. We also made a list of criteria to rank our concepts, and as a guideline to design around. We determined our device needed to be effective, simple, sturdy, portable (compact), light weight, and self-sufficient for a long duration. We …
For the group’s third meeting, we expanded on the brainstorming we had initiated the previous week. The main challenge we focused on during the meeting was figuring out how to create the perturbations. We narrowed our ideas from the previous meeting to three possible methods for creating a perturbation. The first method involves an air piston as the main actuator, …
