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Seth took the idea of splicing and applied it to both the long edges of the design. He also used the filleting tool to further cut down volume. His final design was simple and elegant. It had a very low mass, but it's displacement was way too big to be considered in the final design.
 
Seth took the idea of splicing and applied it to both the long edges of the design. He also used the filleting tool to further cut down volume. His final design was simple and elegant. It had a very low mass, but it's displacement was way too big to be considered in the final design.
  
===Cosmos's Designs===
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Cosmo's design began with understanding that the weaknesses would be at the thinnest sections of the arm, so he wanted to find ways to reduce the volume without reducing the volume or rigidity in those particular areas.  Initially, he decided to go with rounded cuts at these edges but what was found was that this led to unnecessary loss of volume and therefore a larger displacement so that idea was quickly scrapped.  Then he began seeking out places of great structural integrity where it seemed that the extra material was unnecessary. To remove the extra material, he used circular cuts in the beginning, remembering the lecture about airplane windows and their structural integrity.  Circular cuts proved to act well under intense pressure.  However, with several tests Cosmo
  
 
==Final Design==
 
==Final Design==

Revision as of 00:04, 24 September 2012

Initial Thoughts

Before Team α and Team Ω met as Team K, they independently thought of very similar ideas for their robot arm designs. Both teams felt that rounding either the shorter knotch in the robot arm or both knotches in the robot arm would be a positive way to reduce mass and redistribute forces, resulting in less stress.

After hearing about the first commercial jet liner, the De Havilland Comet, in class, neither Team α and Team Ω wanted to use sharply angled cuts. The De Havilland's square-cut windows gathered immense stress. This approach to the robot arm did not appear optimal. Hence, Team α and Team Ω used their separate design times to experiment with extruding rounded cuts.

Initial Design

Team α

Team α used the "spline" option to completely remove the side of the robot arm with the shorter knotch, resulting in a curved side. After experimenting with extruding arc slots, circles, and ellipses, they extruded a single ellipse. However, there was not time enough to finalize Team α's design. What resulted had a volume of 1.1 cubic inches and a displacement of .1660 mm, resulting in a scpore of .1826 mm-in³. Below is an image of Team α's final robot arm.

TeamAlpha.JPG

Team Ω

Team Ω had many initial thoughts when meeting. Cosmo and Seth both agreed that circular notches instead of squares would produce more favorable results. Other than this change, everything else was up in the air. We spent most of the given class time adjusting and testing out crazy ideas that might work and becoming more in fluent with SolidWorks. We did not come up with a finalized design before we met with the other team. With this being said, the resulting design had a volume of 1.2 cubic inches and a displacement of .1314 mm, and a final score of .159 mm-in³.

TeamOmega.JPG

Group Design

When members Seth, Cosmo, and Olivia met on Saturday morning as Team K, they initially spent time separated, experimenting individually. However, all initially agreed to keep experimenting with rounded cuts and sides.

Olivia's Designs

Thinking of how circular cuts were safer, Olivia experimented further with the placement and sizing of arc slots, circles, and ellipses within the robot arm. She also determined that chamfering or filleting the edges of the cuts and of the arm itself were an easy way to reduce the overall volume of the arm.

Seth's Designs

Seth took the idea of splicing and applied it to both the long edges of the design. He also used the filleting tool to further cut down volume. His final design was simple and elegant. It had a very low mass, but it's displacement was way too big to be considered in the final design.

Cosmo's Designs

Cosmo's design began with understanding that the weaknesses would be at the thinnest sections of the arm, so he wanted to find ways to reduce the volume without reducing the volume or rigidity in those particular areas. Initially, he decided to go with rounded cuts at these edges but what was found was that this led to unnecessary loss of volume and therefore a larger displacement so that idea was quickly scrapped. Then he began seeking out places of great structural integrity where it seemed that the extra material was unnecessary. To remove the extra material, he used circular cuts in the beginning, remembering the lecture about airplane windows and their structural integrity. Circular cuts proved to act well under intense pressure. However, with several tests Cosmo

Final Design

It became clear that Cosmo's work was the most developed.

After losing the file multiple times, sheer frustration brought on the idea of extruding right-angled shapes from the robot arm.


TeamK22.JPG


Volume= .79 cubic inches Displacement= .1843 mm Score=.145597 mm-in³

Team Members

Olivia Ortiz

Cosmo Alto

Seth Liebert