IN5590 Rapid Prototyping of Robotic Systems - V2019

Part 1 : (January -> easter)

Completing 4 small projects involving the use of:

Fusion 360: Nurbs, T-spline, material simulation, CAM
Ultimaker, Creality Ender 3, Fortus 250, Markforged carbon, Formlabs SLA, HP sls, Objet connex, Epilog Zing laser, Datron NEO CNC

Competitions and demonstration of 3 of the projects in front of an audience / expert panel

Part 2 : (easter -> May)

Conducting a research project involving: (choose one from)

Making hardware/software for your upcoming master/PhD project
Making hardware/software any research, innovative or technically relevant project
Other examples : Mobile and modular table, trebuchet, keyboard

During the research project:

Writing a paper describing the project aim, choose of methods, experiments and results
Paper template
Requirements

Teaching

2 hours of lectures (plenary sessions) / week by Mats Høvin
2 hour of project work (plenary sessions) / week by Krister Borge
4 hours of supervised practical project work / week by: Yngve Hafting / Vegard Søyseth / Krister Borge / Mats Høvin

Schedule

4 small projects

Box with screws and lid, NURBS - (CrealityEnder / Ultimaker3)
Stiffness optimized robotic link, NURBS - (Zing laser / Markforged carbon) - Performance competition/demo
A simple pneumatic robot walker, NURBS - (Fortus ABS) - Walking competition/demo
A small part, NURBS or T-splines, (CNC Datron NEO), brass/aluminium
Closure

Project submission

Some old examples: INF5207-V19, INF4500-V18, V16, V15, V14

Evaluation / requirements

IN5590 has no final examination, but all projects, demonstrations and the paper must be approved to pass.
IN5590 has a final "pass"/"no pass" grade, but the results and rankings from the mandatory competitions, the paper and all designs will be public accessible on the web
All deliveries are individual but some collaboration is recommended

Fusion 360 - CAD/CAM

Solids / NURBS
Solids / Tspline
Photo realistic rendering by ray-tracing
Material static stress analysis
Computer Aided Machining (CAM)

Training material

Training videos
A good text based overview
F360 community

Machines

CrealityEnder 3 / Cura - PLA

Groups of two students will have access to and responsibility for maintenance of a dedicated CrealityEnder3 during the whole semester

Ultimaker3 / Cura - PLA
Fortus / Insight - ABS
Markforged - Carbon fiber / nylon
Formlabs SLA / Freeform - various resins
HP JetFusion 540 - SLS
Objet - Polymer
Zing laser / Coreldraw - plexiglas

How to use

Datron NEO cnc - aluminum, brass, plastic, wood
ISEL FLATBED FB2 router - aluminum, brass, plastic, wood