True North Biomedical Competition / Rehabilitative Knee Sleeve

The objective of the uOttawa Bionics team is to design and develop a smart rehabilitation knee sleeve that transforms subjective rehabilitation into a measurable, data-guided process. 

Our device aims to provide quantitative muscle activity monitoring by integrating surface EMG sensors that measure quadriceps and hamstring activation, allowing for the detection of asymmetries between injured and contralateral limbs.

This will provide clinicians with data on muscle recruitment timing and activation magnitude. The sleeve will also provide kinematic analysis of knee movement by incorporating dual IMU sensors to measure angular displacement, angular velocity, and linear acceleration, and by calculating knee range of motion during functional movements.

I was responsible for assisting in the mechanical design of the goniometer on the sleeve, which was used as an additional angle measurement method to the IMU. I also was the model for the sleeve, and wore it during the judging portion of the competition.