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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Minimizing Stimulation Artifact In Real-Time Movement Decoding, Nathan Griffin, Mark R. Brinton
Minimizing Stimulation Artifact In Real-Time Movement Decoding, Nathan Griffin, Mark R. Brinton
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
Electrocutaneous stimulation stimulates nerves in the skin and allows a user to feel what they are touching while using a prothesis. Without a sense of touch amputees must focus their attention on their prosthesis and without sensory feedback the user cannot adjust their grip to match the object. A Convolutional neural network (CNN) was implemented alongside of the Kalman filter to see which algorithm will reject artifact better. An experiment was designed in a virtual environment to test which of the two algorithms will reject stimulation artifact better. The experiment consists of three blocks that all take a different amount …
Mastery-Based-Learning To Study Anxiety And Belonging In Circuit Analysis, Meghan Williams
Mastery-Based-Learning To Study Anxiety And Belonging In Circuit Analysis, Meghan Williams
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
Anxiety and lack of belonging are two major obstacles college students face. These obstacles are more likely to impact students in demanding degree programs like engineering, predominantly underrepresented students. Mastery-based-learning (MBL) could lower students’ anxiety levels and increase their sense of belonging in the classroom. In MBL course structure, instructors identify key skills and students have several attempts to demonstrate mastery of these skill. Students are not required to attempt the next skill until they are proficient in the previous. To demonstrate the impacts of MBL, a survey will be given to students throughout the semester to gage their anxiety …
Etherapy App Phase 2, Angelo Botticelli
Etherapy App Phase 2, Angelo Botticelli
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
The eTherapy app Phase 2 development cycle transformed the app to its next version. The app was designed to read motion sensor data to assist in Occupational Therapy and with phase 2, the app has been changed based on the feedback of prior testers. Phase 2 expanded upon the data storage and motion reading capabilities of the app. The landmark achievement of Phase 2 is the introduction of custom exercises where the therapist can store readings of their patient's motion data to make custom exercises which the patient can repeat.
Impact Forces On Five Common Running Surfaces, Thomas Urrunaga, Brian Falk, Mark Gatti, Kurt M. Degoede
Impact Forces On Five Common Running Surfaces, Thomas Urrunaga, Brian Falk, Mark Gatti, Kurt M. Degoede
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
It is commonly believed among runners of all skill levels that the surface one runs on, impacts the risk of injury because of the peak force is greater because one surface is “harder” than the other [1 2]. While surface hardness does vary, this study will determine if the footwear of the athlete is enough protection to mitigate these differences. We hypothesize the measured peak force during a simulated shod heel strike will not be significantly different across several common synthetic running surfaces but may be different across alternate shoes.
Real-Time Control Of A Virtual Hand Using Surface Electromyography, Nathan Griffin, Alexander Kobilnyk
Real-Time Control Of A Virtual Hand Using Surface Electromyography, Nathan Griffin, Alexander Kobilnyk
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
Most multi-articulate prostheses allow the user to control the prosthesis through a range of pre-determined grip patterns with fixed force outputs. Although these pre-determined movements can make the prosthesis more reliable, user commands are limited to these grips and cannot be controlled naturally in real-time. Using surface electromyography (sEMG) and a modified Kalman Filter, upper limb amputees can intuitively control arm prostheses with independent, proportional control. We created an inexpensive sleeve of 32, dry sEMG electrodes (plus reference and ground) and built a graphical user interface in Matlab to train and control an 8 degree-of-freedom virtual arm (MuJoCo, Roboti). First, …
Low-Cost, Biomimetic, Vibrotactile Stimulation For Non-Invasive Sensory Feedback, Joe Kutteh, Alexander Kobilnyk
Low-Cost, Biomimetic, Vibrotactile Stimulation For Non-Invasive Sensory Feedback, Joe Kutteh, Alexander Kobilnyk
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
Prosthetic limbs provide individuals with amputations the ability to regain function in lost body parts. However, most prostheses are seen as tools rather than the embodiment of the user’s missing limb. To strengthen the connection between prosthesis and user, a sense of touch can be enabled via vibrotactile feedback. The goal of our experiment is to find the just-noticeable-difference (JND) in stimuli that an individual can distinguish while using two different waveforms: biomimetic and traditional. The biomimetic waveform mimics rapidly and slowly adapting receptors in the body by encoding rate-of-change in stimuli at the onset and offset of a more …
Etherapy: The Next Generation Of Physical And Occupational Therapy, Colin Elliott
Etherapy: The Next Generation Of Physical And Occupational Therapy, Colin Elliott
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
The purpose of the research is to create software capable of revolutionizing the way physical and occupational therapy is done by utilizing wireless inertia sensors. The inertia sensors themselves can accurately identify their exact position in space. Hence, when they are attached correctly to a patient requiring therapy, they can provide precise data on the patient’s real-time motions. It is the goal of the software to leverage the power of the sensors to provide real-time feedback to the patient and to the therapist to ensure patients are performing prescribed exercises correctly and are restoring their range(s) of motion. For ease …
Small-Scale Experiment On Steel Tanks Subjected To Fire, Ruth Jacob
Small-Scale Experiment On Steel Tanks Subjected To Fire, Ruth Jacob
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
For more than a century, oil storage disasters have damaged the environment and economy. These have become more common due to increased demands of petroleum for modern-day needs. In recent decades, research has been done computationally to better understand exactly what happens to tanks under a thermal load and why these disasters continue to occur regardless of updated standards. As physical research capabilities are limited due to the aforementioned damage caused by these disasters, this study aims to prove that small-scale testing could be implemented and pave the way for further research without the detrimental effects. The main objective of …
Biomechanical Analyses Of Lacrosse Goal Keeper Movements, Grace Butler
Biomechanical Analyses Of Lacrosse Goal Keeper Movements, Grace Butler
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
No abstract provided.