Prosthetic Knee Linkage

William Schrab

22 Sep 2026

Skills Used

MATLAB
Object Oriented Programming
Mechanism Design
Simulation
Visualization

Goal

Create a GUI that allows users to visualize the mechanism of a knee that uses a simple 4 bar mechanism design. The programs allows for changing of the 2 input and output links, visualizing of sitting, midswing, and standing positions, animation, view of one stride, video and photo exporting, and more. The final code is 1200 lines of code and broken into 12 functions.

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Media

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Water Heater Cart

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Transfer Mechanism

Prosthetic Knee Failure Analysis