MTY-2 Fleming Mascot V2


 

 

Himil Shankar

Role : Team Leader, Designing, Coding, Assembling, Integration of whole system, Troubleshooting.

Graduate Aerospace engineer and currently enrolled in Mechatronics program. Proficiency in the use of 3D parametric solid modelling, CAD packages, preferably Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks. Methods, algorithms, and software for computer analysis of the technical condition of engines and units.

Jeet Patel

Role : Coding, Fabrication, Electrical connections, doing trails on regular basis.

Graduate in Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering, currently enrolled in the Mechatronics Program. Proficiency in designing software like Autodesk Inventor and programming software like Arduino using C language.

 

Ashu Patel

Role : Lead Communications and Management of resources and documentations, help in coding and data management of system.

Graduate in Mechatronics Engineering, and perusing in Mechatronics Program. Basic designing in Autodesk Inventor and also worked with Arduino previously.


Team Name:

SOYUZ

Team Members Names:

Himil Shankar, Jeet Patel, Ashu Patel

Program of Study:

MECHATRONICS

Mentor Name:

Maryam Shafiei Sabet

Project Name:

MTY-2 Fleming Mascot V2

Sponsor Name:

FEREYDOON DIBA



Sponsor Organisation:

FLEMING COLLEGE- TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY


Brief Description Of Project:

The students from the Mechatronics program took up on a challenge to build a humanoid robot arms that will replace humans, specifically as a Mascot for Fleming college. The project starts with students designing different components, then finalizing the parts that need to be ordered according to the design. The project is then carried on with assembling the components, and finally the project is closed after making the electric circuit and coding the programs required.

 

Project Objective:

The main aim or goal of this project is to replace human with robot. The robot is required to perform different type of motions which precisely represents human motions. More specifically, the robot should be able to perform the actions which would be expected from a Mascot. This robot will also showcase the main objective of the Mechatronics program as a whole. As it includes implementing


Project Innovation:

The real innovation was to use perforated aluminium parts to reduce the weight while also reducing the overall torque needed for the motors and weight reduction helped us to use servo motor which was otherwise not an option. Using the 3D printed part in initial stages was very useful by using the scaled model of the actual arm which allowed us to make some major design changes from the very first design and prototype. Using Agile method during the project was really helpful as our productivity increased even in the tough covid situations where college premises were unavailable but we did all that while working from home and constantly communication via WEBEX.


Challenges & Solutions:

We faced many challenges while making this project from which the major one was COVID issue and lockdown problem as due to that we were unable to meet at other team-mates place or even at campus but after all this too we managed to meet and complete the project on time.

The motors were not running as we intended on the specific angles that we wanted and the most probable reason might be due to the quality of the motors, since the budget of our project was limited. While programming these motors by setting different angles in the program, we were getting completely different output than expected and due to this our had to spend more time getting the expected movements in the output. But in the end we figured out a way to solve that problem by simply using mathematical calculations and some electrical tweaks inside each motor and that modification lead us to get accurate motion every time we wanted after that and that was success.


Project Results or Progress:

The final result of the project was everything was working as it was programmed and according to set GOAL. The arms can now be programmed any way user wants to make the desired motions similar to humans. There are some pre coded programs already set for cheering but additional programs can be written and edited as needed per requirement.


Lessons Learned:

Learned different skills while making the project that will be helpful in future too.

Some of the skills we learnt during this project were coding, designing in AutoCAD, designing in Autodesk Inventor, operating POLULU software and also operating Arduino for testing the functions of robot and also to implement it in robot.

Electrical knowledge was handful in the start of project but by the end everyone had many ideas and knowledge about the electrical components and specially calculations needed to integrate multiple types of motors and how to run them from single unit.


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