Designing a simple, robust, precision robotic platform for medium quantity production

A niche which has yet to be saturated in the growing market of educational and research robotic platforms is the mechanically-simple, electronically-powerful research robot. Useful in fields such as algorithm and artificial intelligence research, such a robot would support a variety of sensor configurations and run both precisely and autonomously. Such a robot requires a robust, simple, preassembled mechanical platform; an electronics system which easily accepts a variety of sensors; and user friendly computer interface. This paper follows the design of a drive system and chassis for such a robot. Although the prototype developed did not meet the specifications of $250-$500 selling price for five hundred units, data was gathered from the prototype which will allow for a more cost effective redesign.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Lieberman, Janet Samantha

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Daniel Frey.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40457

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/40457