Projects
Autonomous Vacuum
This was a university group project in which we were tasked with coordinating the design, prototyping, and business case for a new robotic vacuum cleaner. With a focus on autonomous object avoidance and pathing we utilised a 2D scanning LiDAR, infrared cliff sensors, and limit switches to allow mapping and complete navigation in a home environment.
Coil Winder
This was another university project in which as a group we were tasked to act as an innovation team within a fictional company, and plan the launch of a new coil winding system. Our responsibilities included design, testing, and conducting market and financial analysis, complete with production plans. This was a great project to develop both engineering skills but also with a focus on more of the business element.
Apple Counting
This university project on counting apples using OpenCV was an awesome introduction to machine vision. The complexity posed by the different colours of the apples made it an enjoyable starting challenge while opening up a world of opportunities for real world industrial applications. In reading I’ve seen some awesome applications of machine vision using variable lighting conditions etc and would love to delve deeper into this topic.
Automated hardware sorting
For this we were tasked with sorting M8 nuts of four different materials (nylon, brass, steel, stainless steel) using a SCARA and a load cell. The project was marked both on speed and accuracy. The final solution was made up of a load cell mounted to a pneumatic arm to pick up the nuts and sort them into three groups based on their readings, the steel and stainless steel were then differentiated using a rotating magnet. All four materials were accurately sorted and due to mounting the load cell directly to the pneumatic arm, the system was fast too.