Presenter(s)

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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