Stanford Center on Longevity: Design Challenge (Senior Design)

Challenge Goals:

  • Create well-designed, practical solutions that address key issues associated with aging
  • Encourage a new generation of students to become knowledgeable about aging issues
  • ...
Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of Mechanisms

Four-Bar Linkage

“A four-bar linkage is the simplest movable closed chain linkage. It consists of four bodies,called bars or links, connected in a loop by four...

Robotic Planning and Kinematics

1. Sensor-Based Motion Planning

Motion planning is an important and common problem in robotics. In its simplest form, the motion planning problem is: how to move...

Machine Design: Straw Truss Bridge

Objectives

Design and construct a truss bridge within constraints outlined in Specifications. Requirements for the project:

  1. Agreement between predicted & measured failure loads for constructed bridge
  2. Measured structural efficiency of the constructed bridge
Feedback Control: Active Car Suspension System

Objectives

Design a compensator for an active car suspension system using Matlab Linear Systems Toolbox and Simulink.