Active Muscle Stimulator (Trask)
Stuff about the development of the active muscle stimulator, a device that assists people with neurological challenges in relation to muscle activation.
Introduction We have already documented the development of a device for controlling the Tibialis Anterior leg muscles during movements such as running. The software for that device was developed in C++ for maximum performance and for portability to microcontrollers. The existing device was running on a 1GHz Raspberry Pi Zero. In the following we are … Continue reading A Microcontroller Controlling My Legs 1.5/2
TRANSLATION ACCURACY Translating a sequence of vectors from an accelerometer into movements is not a simple task, when it must be done accurately and with limited computational resources. Accuracy here also relates to how the underlying model reacts to previously unseen movements. Since this device is attached to a person in movement, it must perform … Continue reading Understanding Movements
Today I am looking at the proposed hardware for the release version of the Active Muscle Stimulator. The hardware I will be testing consists of sensors and the main computer. I need to figure out how this sensor hardware works, and if the computer is fast enough. The Raspberry Pi Zero is really small, even … Continue reading A First Look at Release Version Hardware
Active Muscle Stimulator (Trask) 