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About This Project
About This Project
At Amazon's warehouses, autonomous mobile robots drive around moving crates around the facility. As these robots turn on the same paths every day for years, their caster wheel creates a divot in concrete that grows over time. To combat this, Amazon is interested in various ways to install a steel plate over these divots. To choose the right steel plate solution, I was tasked with creating a gantry machine to simulate a robot's caster running over these steel plates fully loaded. After thousand of cycles, Amazon will use the data collected and go with the plate that is showing the least damage.
I designed and built the entire gantry system by following the engineering process. Starting with listing requirements for our timeline, speed, acceleration, load... etc. I brainstormed ideas and researched existing solutions. The design was done in Solidworks. I did some hand calculations to figure out the physics and size the motor and pneumatics.
By the end of my 4-month co-op I was able to order the bill of materials and assemble the machine. I had to overcome a number of problems throughout this journey. For example, supplier delays forced me to quickly pivot to another linear actuator. Amazon also gave a massive change of scope in the middle of the project going from a two-axis to a one-axis gantry which made me have to change a huge portion of my design. In the end, I'm proud that I was able to overcome these challenges to deliver a working machine by the end of my work term. For more detailed information about engineering behind this project, see the report attached below.
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