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In our last week, UAV Forge has made tangible progress since the beginning of the quarter: a frame and electronics housing. These final products exhibit the magnitude and scale of our work. During our last project meeting, the quarter grading session was scheduled on Saturday, where the teams meet with the Project Lead (Cheng) and Project Manager to discuss each …
Creaform, a company that specializes in high-quality 3D scanning, has been a tremendous help to our project. The UCI Autonomous Boat team was tasked with a daunting challenge of modeling our jet ski hull in Solidworks. Completing this on our own would have required hundreds of hours and the final result would not have looked good. They were gracious …
Although the exterior has been build minor modifications are still being made to place all component accordingly in the interior of the body. We have also been working on trouble shooting all the components and connecting all together. In working with electric components, specifications need to be read carefully to ensure that the correct voltage and amperage are given to …
Our biggest accomplishment for week 9 has been building the prototype body. This 2nd body is made of with a sturdier sheet metal that was water jet cut. We received a 2D flat plate cut to specification that was later bend and weld in some areas to give it its 3D body. There were some minor modifications needed to be …
UAV Forge has been a project that caters to many engineering departments, including MAE, EECS, and CompSci. The issue is, anyone in the EECS or CompSci, couldn’t receive design credit because there was no actual class in their discipline; there was MAE 195 but that was considered independent study. Ariel, the incoming Project Lead, contacted Professor Pai Chou, the administrator …
The Propulsion team worked on improving the quadcopter prototype. They successfully tested that the quad can “loiter” or hover in space while still adapting to the surrounding conditions. Before, the quad was drifting forward. During that previous test, Cheng found that the “trim” calibrator on the radio controller could fix the drifting temporary but it was a bad sign that …
In trying to incorporate all subsystems into one, we had a few glitches in our main controls. One of the main issue that arise in the integration was a non-responsive relay. The signal send by our touch screen was not going through to the relay, the solenoid nor the pump were actuating. Unfortunately, the delay function that was used for …
We’re ecstatic to announce that Krobohand took first place in the Beall Competition, in doing so giving us $7,500 of funding to continue to develop our ideas. We plan to use this money for multiple purposes, including but not limited to incorporating our company, approaching a patent attorney, electronics or materials we’ll need once our MAE funds run out, as …
We’ve come upon our first official prototype, able to perform the three basic motor functions we’ve been designing for: lateral digit movement, closing of all digits, and moving the thumb inwards and away from the palm. The lateral movement of the fingers, and the extra degrees of freedom in the thumb is what we think set the Krobohand apart from …
The controls subsystem has made great progress this week, the supplement page has been re-visualized and resize to include a next button and reset button. The next button concludes the selection of one or more than one supplement. A reset button, clears the page selection in case a wrong selection in the supplement page was made. We have also included …
