Our Robot!


With Our robot, we have been working to create a design that would incorporate some concepts from LEAN and apply these methods to make our robot the most efficient answer to this year's competition.
What we have come up with is a robot that uses two castor wheels for manueverability and two motor-propelled rear wheels for forward and backward control. Also at the rear of the robot, we have designed an elevator assembly that would neatly slide the plane pieces off of the rack and onto the robot. Then it is ready to be attached to the landing gear and shipped out.
(The following images are taken from AutoDesk Professional 2009)


The Elevator Assembly







Entire robot with Elevator Assembly


Here are some pics of the LINKS members at work:



Designing the parts for the Robot





Constructing the robot's base 





Taking measurements of a mockup holder for the plane pieces to create a
way to put them together with the robot





A member creating the images for the robot on AutoDesk Inventor 2009




The webmaster working on the robot information page
(you're viewing it right now!)