The Team! Left to right: Kyle Doyle – The Labview expert and electronic wiz Jimmy Fung – The numerical and back-end programmer Phil Smith – The Mechatronic and logistic guy Daniel Sims – The master of machinists and team leader Expo Day Gallery Haptic Pen Close […]
Our old name, “Group 10 – Planar Cable-Suspended Haptic Interface for the Rehabilitation of Fine Motor Skills” is too long for our table’s sign. So we needed a shorter, hipper name for the Expo this week. We looked through a few names, and ultimately settled on the snazzy “Cable-Assisted Scripting […]
Dedicated readers know our project uses motor-controlled cables attached to a pen to provide rehabilitation of fine motor skills. These cables are able to provide feedback, such as guiding the user through specific motions or simulating “walls” they will be unable to cross with the pen. Cables are ideal for […]
It may seem at first that adding various thuds, clicks and bangs when the user hits our virtual wall is a cute feature that does not enhance the measured metrics of the project. However, there are a few papers that show the that auditory feedback has an influence on what […]
Hand Rehabilitation devices The advancement of technology has brought about numerous devices aimed at the rehabilitation of fine motor skills. One such device is the Phantom Premium 1.0 which is a commercially available haptic device which allows you to create a virtual haptic environment. Youn. K et al. used this […]
Hand-writing Rehabilitation in the Haptic Virtual Environment is the main driver behind our claim that this senior design project has a medical application. This paper has advantages over the period art because it is a Haptic device, not a position control device. That is, the user is helped through the […]
The script has been added with the ability to do the following 1. generate geometry boundary whose center is x=3, y=3 (the geometry is currently set to circle) 2. a circle of radius = 10 is plotted on a graph 3. the location of the pen is plotted on top […]
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To better understand the material properties of a potential cable choice, 5 samples of 50 pound weight nylon fishing line were loaded into the mechanical engineering lab’s Instron 5569A (Kindly donated by Instron, thanks guys!!). The 5 samples were subjected to an increasing load of 100 Newtons per minute until failure. […]
