Thursday, April 26, 2018

Tiger Bot VII Bipedal Robot

This is more of a stub post. Tiger Bot is one of the multiyear senior projects at my university. As I work for the senior design program at my, this was one of the projects I worked on and one of the most complex our shop has managed in the last few years. The task for the team was to design and build a bipedal robotics research platform that mimics human anatomy. This team was only to design the robot, not to program dynamic walk cycles. Below are photos of and models of some of the parts I made for this project. In total I did over 40 parts for this, most of them CAM. All programming was done in Fusion360. Because the number of CNC machined parts on this project was so high, I also worked with team members to teach them how to use the Fusion360 CAM package and run 2-axis CNC mills so they could produce some of the lower complexity parts.

Full documentation of the project can be found here.

Robot near final assembly, standing about 1.5 meters

External hip plates in aluminum, 2 made
Toe plates in aluminium, 8 made
Foot strain gauge structures in aluminum, 2 made
Arm servo replacement face plates, in aluminum, 2 made
Hip servo replacement face plates in aluminum, 2 made
Knee harmonic drive mounting bracket in aluminum, mirrored set made
Ankle servo replacement face plates in aluminum, 2 made
Heel plate in aluminum, mirrored set made

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