American Robotics Project - Base Station
Project Summary
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Lead mechanical designer for the next gen drone base station
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Entrusted to design a completely new system that was both less expensive and more robust that the existing base station
Project Steps
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Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to develop an extensive set of requirements that culminated in a SRR
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Collected new concept ideas from the entire company
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Had a transparent concept evaluation process ​and down selected to the best idea
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Designed, built and tested a proof-of-concept system to de-risk future development
Skills Learned
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Experience developing realistic but aggressive project milestone and deliverable dates for a multi year project
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Designed the largest and most complicated robotic system I have dealt with to date
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Learned to worked with a cross functional team to develop a SRR
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American Robotics Project - Payloads
Project Summary
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Lead the design and creation of a custom gimbal for new payload sensors
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Packaged sensors to be flown and operated of gimbal design
Project Steps
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Worked with stakeholders to develop requirements for mass, volume and feature set
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Made initial motor and encoder selection from market research and mass assumptions
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Designed and built POC gimbal to validate component selection and software integration
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Used learnings to generate the production design that was ready to deploy at customer sites
Skills Learned
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Learned how to efficiently build and tune a gimbal
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Experience with motor and encoder selection/validation
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Packaging sensors and electronics to make lightweight, watertight and robust payloads
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