Designing a simple, robust, precision robotic platform for medium quantity production
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Lieberman, Janet Samantha![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/40457/191732902-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Daniel Frey.
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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.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 21).
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2007Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mechanical Engineering.