Our objective is to move a spherical magnet in a circular trajectory while it is suspended in a soft gel. Why so specific and seemingly arbitrary? This is to demonstrate the potential applications of minimally invasive surgeries. In our demonstration, the soft gel is meant to simulate brain tissue, and the spherical magnet is meant to simulate a medical device. Our challenge lies in controlling its motion.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Week 7 Update
This week the team's progress continued steadily. We made our first great batch of gels and we have taken note of the exact procedure we used so we may repeat it again. We are still waiting for our 3D printed components, and until we get them there is not much more progress we can make. The image processing scripts and motor control scripts are finished and now must be tweaked to fit the system parameters once we start testing. Unfortunately, we are unable to start testing our system as a whole due to the delay in our 3D printed components. This makes further progress difficult, so we are staying patient. Until then, we will continue to make fine adjustments to our individual parts.
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