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Above is a video showing the most current attempts to solve our problem. As seen in the video, the new technology has lots of benefits but there are still things that can be improved upon.
More about goals, parameters, and constraints
Parameters on the built:
Building a comfortable prosthetic is definitely not an essay job. There are many constraints to it, one of them is the weight. Weight plays an important role on the prosthetic, if the limb is too heavy it will cause problems on the amputees walking and wear of the object, if the prosthetic is way to light it can break causing a possible trauma/impact lesson which is one of the most important things to make sure that don’t happen to the user wearing it.
Creating a prosthetic is not an easy task, it takes lots of different materials like carbon fiber, steel, aluminum, rubber, etc. In other words making the prosthetic form zero is not a viable option for our work. Some other parameters that we might have to settle for this project is that our main focus is in comfort, anything that does not benefit for comfort is out of the equation.
Meausurable Parameters:
To evaluate our design and see it's success rate, we must have a measuable goal. For our design, it must reduce skin irritation by decreasing inflammation and decreasing skin sores or rashes by at least 50%. Our design also must allow the user to have a more active lifestyle and use their prosthetic 2 times more than they used to. For example, some people can only wear their prosthetic 2 hours at a time while being active. Our goal is to bring that up to at least 4 hours of comfortable use.
Building a comfortable prosthetic is definitely not an essay job. There are many constraints to it, one of them is the weight. Weight plays an important role on the prosthetic, if the limb is too heavy it will cause problems on the amputees walking and wear of the object, if the prosthetic is way to light it can break causing a possible trauma/impact lesson which is one of the most important things to make sure that don’t happen to the user wearing it.
Creating a prosthetic is not an easy task, it takes lots of different materials like carbon fiber, steel, aluminum, rubber, etc. In other words making the prosthetic form zero is not a viable option for our work. Some other parameters that we might have to settle for this project is that our main focus is in comfort, anything that does not benefit for comfort is out of the equation.
Meausurable Parameters:
To evaluate our design and see it's success rate, we must have a measuable goal. For our design, it must reduce skin irritation by decreasing inflammation and decreasing skin sores or rashes by at least 50%. Our design also must allow the user to have a more active lifestyle and use their prosthetic 2 times more than they used to. For example, some people can only wear their prosthetic 2 hours at a time while being active. Our goal is to bring that up to at least 4 hours of comfortable use.