Vishnu Aishwaryan Subra Mani

• Master's Student
• Mechanical Engineering
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Contact Information

• Lab
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • Room 230 (Beside RBE office)
  • Phone: 508-831-5191
• Mailing Address
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • 2nd Floor, Robotics Engineering
  • Worcester, MA 01605
• E-mail
• vsubramani@wpi.edu

Education

• B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, India

Research Interests

• Wearable Robotics and Exoskeleton
• Biomechanics
• Bio-Inspired Robots
• Designing
• Manufacturing (CNC machines)

About Me

My primary research work is currently based on designing a Knee joint for a Hybrid Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Exoskeleton. The design of the system has to be energy and weight efficient. In order to do so a model was developed in Solidworks and weight of the parts were estimated. Based on the design the parts are currently manufactured. A quasi- passive mechanism using torsion springs and solenoids were chosen. The preliminary focus of my work is to estimate the lifetime of the working mechanism.

Apart from my primary research I am also looking into wearable robotics that could augment human running and hopping. Biomechanics of human running can be considered as a one dimensional spring mass system. Based on this estimation a wearable device is designed and it is currently in the process of testing.