Pate Motter: Recording Stroke Patient Progress

Recording Stroke Patient Progress: Developing a File I/O System for Upper Limb Exo-Sekeleton Arms

This summer, Pate worked in the Bionics lab under the direction of Dr. Jacob Rosen and Miller. In the lab there are a pair of robotic arms that fit over a person's own arms and can be moved in conjunction with the wearer. Each of the arms has seven degrees of freedom which means that they move exactly the way a human's arm can and someone wearing the arms can reach approximately 95% of the places they could without wearing the arms.

Pate's task was to determine if there was a viable way to write the data recorded by the robotic arms to a hard drive and then read it back from file. The programming was mostly in C while utilizing functions that were a part of Simulink. Using a buffer created by Pate the was able to output all of the arm's positions every .01s to the buffer and then after 1s output the entire array to file and repeat the process. Work is continuing on solving the problem involving reading from file.