Mechanical Engineering Team:

Hank Hao, Steven Sun, Harry Yu, Owen Huang, Sicheng Wang 

(First Name Alphabetical Order)

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Electrical Engineering Team:

Aureliano Ceballos, Emilia Ramirez, Jakob Travis, Rahul Varghese,

Sandeep Gade

(First Name Alphabetical Order)

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Art Design:

Melinda Xu

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Advisors: Prof. Tyler Susko, Prof. Ilan Ben-Yaacov

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UCSB College Of Engineering Showcase:

Lab D4H BabyBOOST

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Project Overview:​

• Designed home-use automated ball therapy device for cerebral palsy (CP) children under  ~$6,700 budget

• Built therapeutic robot with parallel appendages and tendon actuation mechanism to better emulate ball therapy and designed for a small footprint for easy transport

• Integrated Kollmorgen AKM2G servo motor and drive to achieve three degrees of freedom of programmable movements

• Collaborated with local public health department to develop target specifications for automated ball therapy device

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