2022-10-04 Mechanical Meeting Minutes

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Austin Tailon Huang
Last updated: Oct 04, 2022

Attendance

  • Austin

  • Chan

  • Thomas

  • Shabd

  • Varun

  • Henrique

  • Ryan

  • Egor

  • Gavins

  • Lucaas

  • Ryan Mark

  • Zia

  • Aathithan

General Updates

  • Reading week and midterms are coming up! Make sure you pass

  • Meetings will be online on Oct 11, 2022 and cancelled on Oct 18, 2022

Drivetrain - @Thomas Valer

@Thomas Valer

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CAD Cleanup

  • Working on documentation to learn more about drivetrain design

  • Clean cad by next week

Battery Mount Design

  • Still doing background into the battery mount

  • Design process plan - schedule with Austin some time this week

BLOCKERS:

  • No blockers

 

@Zia Formuly Lucas and Shivraj

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Differential Bar Investigation

  • Meet next week

BLOCKERS:

  • Reading week + midterms

@Joshua Harper

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Drivetrain Weight Reduction

  • mainly focused on electrical tasks rn

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

BLOCKERS:

  • Electrical Tasks

Gimbal / Rover Comms - @Gavin Mesz

@Gavin Mesz

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Rover Comms Tower / Gimbal Mount

    • List of questions completed?

      • Half of them with the time I had on Saturday.

    • Concepts or designs?

      • I know I want the camera on a diagonal from the arm such that it is not blocked. Can’t be >120cm total from ground but arm has to reach to 150cm.

      • Stand has to hold camera, comm stand items.

    • Questions or concerns?

  • @Gavin Mesz meet with austin sometime next week

BLOCKERS:

  • More info

EBox

@Joshua Harper

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EBox Redesign

  •  

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

BLOCKERS:

  • Finishing EE tasks

Arm - @Austin Tailon Huang

@Ryan Mark

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A1 Base Plate

  • Will create a ticket

    • Updated design pushed?

    • Concepts or ideas?

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

  • Machine and replace part

A4 Sensor Mount

    • Research done into sensor?

    • Concepts or ideas?

  • Questions regarding A4 - to be confirmed offline

BLOCKERS:

  • More productive during reading week

@ David Choi - Not at meeting

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Arm Design Research

  • List of questions?

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A5/A6 - Shaft Redesign

  • List of questions?

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

A5/A6 - Structural Weight Reduction

  • List of questions?

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

A5/A6 - Encoder Protection

  • List of questions?

  • @Austin Tailon Huang create ticket

BLOCKERS:

  • f

OPEN DESIGN TASKS:

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Interested Members

Task

Interested Members

  • Good for new members

 

Joint Testing Plans

  • Need to develop plans to measure torque output, backlash, speed, efficiency, current draw for each arm joint

  • Plus verify end stop functionalities

  • Will start after midterms, when odrives work

  • Good for experienced members who are familiar with motor properties and motor controllers

@Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

Arm Camera Mount

  • Select a suitable camera to be mounted on the wrist

  • Requires communication with SW, simpler mechanical design task

Circle back on this one

 

Science - @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

@Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

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Science Assembly

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Science Sensor Dino Mount

  • Waiting for science team lead to respond to whether the DHT 22 and CO2 sensors need to be inserted into the soil or only brought near it.

  • Working on dino mount - design and CAD review

  • Some parts need to be 3d printed, and part needs to be machined

 

 

 

BLOCKERS:

  • May need to order a shaft coupling and bearing

@Egor Gorelyy

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Air Manifold Assembly

    • @Austin Tailon Huang glued mesh filters into air manifold

    • @Ryan Mark machined down dirt nozzle ODs

  • Assemble air manifold over the weekend

3D Sensor Head Mount

  • waiting on science lead answer for this one

BLOCKERS:

  • need answer for clare

@Ryan Mark

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Remachine Science Dirt Nozzles

  • further machine down the OD

BLOCKERS:

  • N/A

@ Lucas D’Elia and Shivraj

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Fix Linear Carriage for Science Mechanism

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OPEN DESIGN TASKS:

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Interested Members

Task

Interested Members

Design Mount for Science PCB

  • Good for new members, learn about PCB packaging

  • Easier design task

 

New Members:

Name

Program and Year

Training Status

Name

Program and Year

Training Status

Erin Devlin

Mechanical Engineering 2A

 

Dahui Kang

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

Toni Zeng

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

Lucas D’Elia

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

 

David Choi

Mechanical Engineering 2A

 

Megan Chang

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

 

Santiago Zea

Mechanical Engineering 2A

 

Yuming He

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

Henrique Rodrigues

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

Aathithan Karunakaran

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

Shivraj Singh Vishnoi

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

 

Shabd Gupta

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

 

SOLIDWORKS TRAINING SESSION

  • Postpone over reading week, remote session

  • Gripper parasolid file errors - disregard for the mean time.

CONFLUENCE ACCESS

  • if you need confluence access add your name here please!