This is our repository for the "Social Technology Lab 1" project, completed for this course in the winter semester (A.Y. 2021/2022), at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
The prototype was realised by me, Paul and Riccardo with love between the "Cheese building" and the "The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute" at SDU.
This project consists of some hardware parts:
- Arduino Uno board placed on the forearm
- RC transceiver connected to the forearm board
- EMG muscle sensor for reading the arm's muscle's contractions
- Gyroscope around the wrist to read rotation
- Small car with 2 brushless DC motors
- Arduino Uno board on the car
- RC transceiver connected to the car board
And software coded using Arduino IDE for both Arduino boards:
The forearm "console" reads speed values and steering degree as contractions of the forearm flexor muscles and wrist rotation degree from the gyroscope. This data is sent to the RC receiver on the car from the RC transmitter on the forearm. Speed then determines how fast the car's motors spin and the steering value controls the car steering degree.
Want to see this prototype working? Check out our playlist on YouTube!
It was simply a course project, but we really enjoyed working on it, so much that me and Paul are now expanding it for his second university project and my Master's thesis. However, the original concept did not change. We're trying to provide a tool to make the forearm/wrist/hand rehabilitation's monitoring easier, both for the therapist and for the patient. As for the latter, we also want to make the rehab experience less repetitive and more rewarding by allowing the patient to see immediate and long-term progress indicators.
Check out the new project repos: