Tech-Knee: An Active and Assistive Device
Author : Ramakrishnan Sriram, Pavithraa VK and Archana M
Abstract :
Many of the people whose age ranges from 45 and above are facing with knee problems and knee pains. Most of them are choosing surgery and spending their money lavishly for those surgery. Few of them are not even ready to go for operation since they are afraid of it and their bodies can’t even support it. This paper presents an active and assistive knee device which is wearable by the senior citizens to overcome the knee ailments and knee stress. This makes the people to walk or climb or jog without stress. This paper describes the electronic and electrical requirements of knee device and how it is going to treat the knee joint using pressure points in our knee. The device includes a microcontroller ESP8266. It includes force sensor and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation module (TENS). It also has got some technical stacks such as mobile application, Arduino IDE.
Keywords :
Knee problems, surgery, knee device, electrical requirements, force sensor, ESP8266, TENS.
