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Motorized Prosthetic Knee - Design completed for my Master's Degree as part of the Human Engineering Lab at UC Berkeley.
This prosthetic knee was designed to provide powered assistance for stair climbing and hill ascent. Current state-of-the-art prosthetics are energetically passive and cannot lift the person up stairs. The amputee must either exert great effort to climb stairs, typically pulling themselves up with railing, or take the elevator. I worked as part of a team to design the entire electromechanical system and completed my work by developing a mathematical model of the knee to predict performance.
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