This document outlines our senior design project for the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering Department on behalf of Jack’s Helping Hand. As a team of two Mechanical Engineering students, we developed a structure that can support a rider and can move in three degrees of freedom to model the gait patterns of a horse. This senior project will be continued by another group that will focus on electronics and implement the motors that will induce motion on the structure that our team has built. We collected baseline data by attaching an iPhone to a horse and used that motion to compare the results of our ideation process. Our design is a body suspended by a frame on a manufactured joint that can move in three degrees of freedom to accommodate the pitch, yaw, and roll angles that we observed during our testing, to ensure that our project feels like riding a horse
