Team Power House had a strong finish to the Fall semester as we presented our System Level Design Review to our classmates, coaches, and liaison engineers from FPL. We are thrilled to unveil all of our hard work and respond to valuable feedback and questions from our audience. We were able to show many videos on our progress thus far within this presentation. These included videos of our structure in Solidworks, the team testing the robot, the charging mechanism prototype, the computer vision system actively functioning, and our current design for the user interface. Two pictures of the prototype videos are highlighted in this post!  

After this, our next steps include fully finishing the charging mechanism design, building the physical structure prototype, and brainstorming how we can merge our user interface with one made by Ghost Robotics. For the charging mechanism, we hope to finalize the way in which it will move towards the quadruped. We will consider parameters such as loading, distance to move, and the probability of the robot hitting the charging with its legs when finalizing this design. Before building the structure in the IPPD lab, we will plan out our cuts of the wood and ensure we have all the correct material. From here, we will use the lab tools to first assemble the frame of the structure and then continue from there. Finally, in future conversations with Ghost and FPL, we hope to gain insight as to how we can design a user interface to merge with the pre-existing one. We do not want to re-invent the wheel, and we hope to use this added time to optimize our other components even further. We look forward to continuing with our progress in the coming month and in the next semester!