BIO

My name is Taiwo Sogbesan and I am currently majoring in biomedical engineering. I look forward to researching topics such as bio-instrumentation and biomechanics. My passion for the biomedical engineering field arose during my junior year in high school when I tore my patella tendon playing football. During my rehabilitation process, I was introduced to various medical devices and exercises to assist in my recovery. The ability of these devices to aid and assist people drove me to potentially research and develop future medical devices the world needs. All in all, I want my research to help the world and leave a positive impact on people's life.

Finding Orange: Natural Frequency of Rocking Chairs

Abstract

Our project focuses on modeling the motion of a rocking chair. We recorded videos of the free oscillation of the chair under different conditions. The data obtained from our trials were then processed using MatLab. From the figures generated, we were able to begin to identify the constants within the preestablished ODE, which modeled the motion of the chair. Our goal with this research is to gain a thorough understanding of the chair in order to be then able to create a device that prolongs the oscillation of the chair. Our main motivation for this project is to provide a restful night of sleep to a child who has autism. He is unable to sleep if he is not being rocked, and therefore we hope our research is able to develop a device to aid him.

Keywords: Finding, orange, natural frequency, and rocking chair