Team Members
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKKPZqceNY&feature=youtu.be
Software
https://github.com/camilletown/OptimizedSTS
Motivation
Soft exosuit technology has a large potential to grow in various untapped applications. Superflex technology, originally developed for the DARPA-funded ‘Warrior Web’ program, now focuses on creating powered clothing that will help people with general independence, people who are starting to lose confidence in their mobility. Specifically, wearable assistive devices have the potential to improve and extend quality of life for elderly people. My grand goal is to discover how a wearable assistive device can make up for elderly people’s muscle atrophy and enhance their motion when performing sit to stand. My project focuses on informing the design of a wearable assistive device that will compensate for muscle weakness in elderly people. Via dynamic optimization, I will extract the evolution of joint torques first in a normal sit to stand, then in an elderly sit to stand. I will add an active actuator at the hip to model the wearable assistive device and extract the torques required for the device to support elderly people in sit to stand.
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Read Carmichael’s paper in more depth (read cited literature).
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Talk to Carmichael about his Standing Long Jump program.
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Conduct a literature review: look for kinematics data of sit to stand for old people and young people.
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Set-up workflow: create necessary OpenSim-related files, download Carmichael’s model, etc.
- Define optimization constraints and equations.
- Do a first pass at running the optimization code.
- After gathering kinematics data, see if need to assemble into a specific file structure.
- Try to run inverse dynamics on the kinematics data of the young and old people.
- Write up progress report for Week 7. Include challenges (resolved or unresolved) and strategies for addressing them.
- Present a demo.
- Submit final project deliverables:
- Report
- Software
- Video
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