Project Team
Students
Jay Madaka
Biomedical Engineering
Penn State Abington, Penn State University Park
Faculty Mentors
Dr. Mukul Talaty
Penn State Abington
Biomedical Engineering
Pratima Saravanan
Penn State University Park
Project
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Project Abstract
Human gait (walking) has always been the corner stone for human movement. In studying gait, the contribution each joint moment and muscle, in lower extremities, has to the acceleration of the person is very important in determining defects or irregularities that than can be corrected with an assistive device. For our project, we attempted to determine the contributions of these joint moments in an amputee patient.
Using a computer software called Open Sim that we downloaded, my mentor and I attempted to find the answer to our question using computer simulation.
After completing all the basic tutorials and finding the necessary inputs and outputs, we were ready to use a model of a person with certain specifications to calculate the acceleration in each individual joint moment and measure their contributions to the overall acceleration of the patient’s walking, with the implementation of our amputee motion capture data.
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