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    John Gordon Hoover, Franklin Alexander McClimans

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    Presentation: 9:00-10:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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    Description

    This research explores a spherical mechanism designed as a component in a wrist orthotic. A spherical mechanism, a little used class of mechanical device, allows the limitations commonly associated with conventional wrist orthoses to be effectively addressed. With a theoretical model of the wrist orthotic and its component spherical mechanism developed in previous work, several questions remain. These questions include addressing the mechanical design issues to realize a working orthotic prototype, and exploring the spherical mechanism fundamental to the orthotic to explore its unique properties. The spherical mechanism is classified as a drag-link device, meaning it is capable of large motions of many of its component links. To take advantage of these large motions, several design considerations need to be addressed by this work.

    Publication Date

    4-17-2024

    Project Designation

    Independent Research

    Primary Advisor

    Andrew P. Murray, Dave Harry Myszka

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, School of Engineering

    Designing Spherical Mechanisms, from Wrist Orthotics to Mechanical Novelties

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