Competition
In the spring of 2019, I took Georgia Tech’s most iconic mechanical engineering course: ME 2110 Creative Decisions and Design. The final project in this course consisted of working in groups to design and fabricate a robot meant to complete a set of tasks in a competition setting at the end of the semester. The design my group arrived at and built is outlined below.
Design
This is the robot design my team arrived at that we believed best completed the tasks required in the final competition. Modeled in SolidWorks, the design consisted largely of laser cut MDF. This made the overall design simple and reliable to manufacture as we progressively developed the design and changed it over the course of the semester. The overall system was controlled using an NI myRIO programmed in LabVIEW. The robot used drawer slides to extend onto the competition area, triggered with two pneumatic pistons. Switches, motors, and a solenoid on the front of the extended subassembly then allowed the robot to complete the required tasks during the competition.
Final Product
This image shows the final manufactured system that was used in the final competition.
Conor Snyder 