Adjustable Gold Metal Seat MSDI Desired start: Winter 2012 MSDII Desired: Spring 2012 Project Description: This project will take a current system that allows a specific quadriplegic sailor, in a specific boat to steer and make it adaptable to both different people and boats. The system will consist of a seating support, steering hand crank and tiller strut. The system will use a sourced, adjustable seat. The seating location will be adjustable from front to back and in height. The hand crank location will also be adjustable front to back and up and down as will the leg rests. The system should be easy to install and lightweight. Current tentative MSD team: 3 mechanical engineers, 1 industrial engineer, Richard Ramos as the primary customer, Professor Leipold has a faculty consultant and Mr. Burhans as a stakeholder. Feasibility: This project has the interesting design issue of adding adjustability to all components of a system. The project has been shown to be feasible by identifying major risks and mitigating them. An example is the hand crank adjustability was shown to be feasible by evaluating the shear in an adjusting pin and the “wobble” of the system. Current system shown with adjustability concepts.
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Adjustable Gold Metal Seat
MSDI Desired start: Winter 2012 MSDII Desired: Spring
2012
Project Description:
This project will take a current system that
allows a specific quadriplegic sailor, in a specific boat to
steer and make it adaptable to both different people
and boats. The system will consist of a seating support,
steering hand crank and tiller strut. The system will use
a sourced, adjustable seat. The seating location will be
adjustable from front to back and in height. The hand
crank location will also be adjustable front to back and
up and down as will the leg rests. The system should be
easy to install and lightweight.
Current tentative MSD team: 3 mechanical engineers, 1
industrial engineer, Richard Ramos as the primary
customer, Professor Leipold has a faculty consultant and
Mr. Burhans as a stakeholder.
Feasibility: This project has the interesting design issue of adding adjustability to all components of a
system. The project has been shown to be feasible by identifying major risks and mitigating them. An
example is the hand crank adjustability was shown to be feasible by evaluating the shear in an adjusting
pin and the “wobble” of the system.
Current system shown with adjustability
concepts.
System Benchmark Table
Exhisting Tiller Bench Current Gold Metal Seat Adjustable Automotive Racing Seat
Allows Easy transfer of quadreplegic person from side to side of boat No Yes No
Seat is adjustable for comfort (different body types in chair) No No Yes
Requires no modification to boat No Yes Possible non modification interface
System allows quadreplegic person to steer boat No Yes Possible with adaption to current system
Digital design (including HDL and FPGA) Wireless networks
Software for microcontrollers (including Linux and
Windows)
Robotics (guidance, navigation, vision,
machine learning, and control)
Device programming: Assembly language, C Concurrent and embedded software
Programming: Java, C++ Embedded and real-time systems
Analog design Digital image processing
Networking and network protocols Computer vision
Scientific computing (including C and MATLAB) Network security
Signal processing Other:
Interfacing transducers and actuators to
microcontrollers
Other:
Other:
Reviewed by (CE faculty):
As the desired adjustments will be made before sailing by the user as well as his crew, there is no need to make adjustments on the fly. This means that for the intended scope of this project, a mechanical/industrial engineering project is more appropriate than an EE or CE heavy project.