— Design, Analysis, and Prototyping —

For MIT’s Design and Manufacturing I course, I designed and built a robot to complete a unique set of tasks on a competition gameboard. The completion of the robot involved creating design requirements, generating mechanism ideas, evaluating strategies, designing and demonstrating the most critical module, producing integrated mechanism designs, assessing the success of potential designs, executing plans, and iterating and updating the design as problems arose. Throughout the course, I used physics to analyze the potential success of integral mechanisms to my robot, which included analyzing forces required to push buttons or pull down a lever, understanding how gear size impacts the rack and pinion performance, identifying the center of mass required to climb the ramp, and finding the mass required to keep the robot on the ground when performing tasks.