Robotic Workcell Capstone Project Wins Best of Session Congratuations to RSL's interdisciplinary Robotic Workcell Team, one of the RSL capstone teams to win Best of Session honors in this year's Senior Design Conference. This team was tasked with creating a multi-stage workcell capable of producing a simple product given the limitations of the available tooling. They choose to create a set of coasters with four different engraved patterns representing different engineering disciplines (gears for mechanical, 1's and 0's for computer, a DNA strand for bioengineering, etc.). They used a set of 3 rotrics dexarms, and they designed several custom end-effectors and workstation tools; they also programmed a modular sequencing software control system to manage overall flow through the workcell. The video shows several cycles at high speed. The sequence consists of picking up a blank coaster from the stockpile, moving it to and placing it within a laser engraving station, engraving a pattern, removing it and placing it on a device to flip it over, moving it to another station where 3 felt feet are installed, moving it to yet another station that presses the feet firmly into position to ensure adhesion, and then finally depositing the finished coaster in a bin. Congratulations to team members Kira Hofelmann, Amy Kiyama, Samuel Lim, Cameron McGinnis, and Alex Torres.
Jeff Ota
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Incredible the level the senior design projects are getting to nowadays!!!
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