February 2, 2018

3:00 pm

Hitchcock Hall Room 214

Meeting Agenda: 

1. Discuss ideas individually brainstormed regarding the chassis, drivetrain, and motors

Meeting Notes:

The team brainstormed basic chassis and drivetrain ideas. They visited the course and discussed possible ways to complete the tasks using one appendage. After talking about different styles of arms, forklifts, and claws, the team decided a rotating forklift would work best because it could accomplish all of the tasks, but would be expensive, heavy, and difficult to implement.

The team also discussed possible motors to use and looked at the FEH Motors Graph. They came to the conclusion that the ACRONAME Motor had the best torque-speed curve, but after looking at a sample motor, realized that it would be difficult to use, and that the IGWAN and other motors could be implemented to work.

Future Actions: 

1. Create design matrices based on different possible robot combinations
2. Evaluate best robot combinations

January 31, 2018

3:00 pm

Hitchcock Hall Room 214

Meeting Agenda: 

1. Meet each other!

Meeting Notes: 

Meghan, Dean, and Tom exchanged contact information, but Shyon was not present. The team brainstormed some team name ideas and landed on “Save the Crewbot”, then brainstormed for the poster. The team decided to create the poster using PowerPoint because no one had exceptional artistic skills.

Future Actions:

1.   Brainstorm ideas for the chassis, drivetrain, and motors to discuss at the next meeting.