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Our project’s main purpose is to perform punching action on a metal sheet. This process is more convenient than using the drill because it can keep the sheet metal in decent shape. We use the cam mechanism and converse rotating torque from the motor to linear motion punching force. We apply our knowledge in the course of Applied dynamics to design and construct our project.
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How do you like fishing? The passion that some of the students of the team feel for the activity of fishing has served as the main component for the visualization and the beginning of this project.
To design and manufacture an air dropping system and a water landing gear, the team of students will make use of an existing drone, Holybro X500, which is to be borrowed from the college. Two important subjects are predominant for the development of this project. First, the mechanical part which includes the design and calculations, and second, the electronic aspect, which will allow the design to be operated remotely.
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With an estimated 70-80% share of the commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, DJI has been the long-standing leader in drone manufacturing. One of the company's most popular drones is the Phantom 4 series, which is known for its reliability and ease of use. The latest version in the series, the Phantom 4 Pro V2.0, is equipped with a camera capable of capturing 4K video at 60fps and still photos of up to 20MP. One limitation with the Phantom system is that with certain flight positions and camera angles, the drone’s landing gear are captured in the frame of the images. In order to get more use out of the camera, our team has designed a conversion kit that will allow users to replace the UAV’s standard, fixed landing gear with a retractable version. This will allow the landing gear to be raised to the side, out of the camera’s horizontal field of view, giving it the camera the ability to rotate a full 360° without obstructiton.
Our goal was to create a marketable product. Thus, we focused on making our design reliable, cost effective and easy to use, while having the ability to be safely integrated into the drone’s existing systems.
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The project is building a mechanical plotter up. This project purpose is building up a mechanical plotter by using the knowledge learned from college to improve the ability of mechanical engineering skills. Within the budget constraints, this project should be successfully completed. Parts in the mechanical plotter assembly are divided into two categories: off-the- shelf products and custom-designed components. Most of the custom-designed components are fabricated in the college machine shop whereas the complex design such as a pen holder is 3D printed. By the end of this project, a machine that moves a pen along the x-axis and the y-axis by hand crank and lead screw mechanism will be built. Though the original concept was for an automated design CNC plotter, the project purpose was changed to a manual CNC plotter. This was after considering the limitations of the budget and access to electromagnetic-related content or resources on the campus. So far, major parts of the assembly, including the base plate, drawing plate, and two L-bar gantries, have been machined. Furthermore, mounting holes on the base plate are marked for drilling with a transfer punch.
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In the research of Aircraft Nose Landing Gear, the project intends to focus on the electrification of the landing gear mechanism as compared to the traditional hydraulic system. The hydraulic system is outdated and very less efficient as there are 2 conversion of energies. In electric, there are far less number of components, more range with lesser weight, increased precision, automated control, easier maintenance, improved safety and reduced risk. As the advantages of electric system in landing gear outweigh the hydraulic system, our team researched and developed the mechanism for nose landing gear in Electric system which has proven to be very compact and efficient for its size. If it was to be compared with a traditional system of the same footprint, the weight would been 4 times, more number of variables and harder to control. All the same functionality with better control has been achieved with the use of SPDT switches, limit switches, PWM signal potentiometer speed control. The mechanism works and exceeds the functional capabilities of hydraulic system in almost all parameters.