PROSTHETIC Arm Design

During the summer of 2019, the team of students from Los Angeles City College worked with one of the professors in the Physics department in UCLA on designing a new program for laboratory experiments for students at UCLA. The new design involved implementing Arduino and Python programming languages into the experiments from basic kinematics and dynamics. We designed experiments using various data collectors, such as accelerometers, UV sensors, gyroscopes, and many more. After the first half of the summer, a new project was introduced to me. This project involved controlling a robot arm with the electrical impulses fired by the muscles in one’s hand. The project was programmed by Arduino programming language with the Spark Fun engineering parts. With the use of the accelerometer and the Brain Wave adapter that senses the minor electrical current in one’s arm, the robot arm imitated the movement of a human arm. It could grab small objects reposition them to a different spot, and let them go when needed.

Advisors:

Dr. Jayesh Bhakta: bhaktaj@lacitycollege.edu