Team
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Member
- Cara Welker
Description
Research Questions
My objective in this project is to determine optimal parameters for a linearly elastic assistive device in order to provide maximum metabolic assistance to a wide variety of users.
Research Questions
- What does the landscape of metabolic cost look like when resting length and stiffness are varied for a single subject? What are the optimal values for these parameters? How big of an effect do small variations in each of the parameters have on the metabolic savings?
- Do these optimal stiffness and resting length parameters vary between subjects or are they approximately the same when normalized by subject height and weight? How does speed affect the parameters?
- Do kinematics change significantly when using the device? If so, how does changing kinematics induced by the device change muscle activation during the gait cycle?
Progress
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Home: BIOE-ME 485 Spring 2017 |
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