Design Project 2: "Get a Grip" - Design a System for Sterilizing Surgical Tools Using Remote Sensing and Actuation
In Project Two, students will work in teams to design a system for securely transferring a surgical instrument to an autoclave for sterilization.
This project will introduce us to principles of rapid prototyping (i.e., 3D printing) and physical computing.
As a team, we will design a computer program for controlling movement of a robotic arm to pick up and transfer a container for sterilization, as illustrated in the picture below. This task is for the computation sub-team, of which I am a part.
Working in a team of 4 students, we will be required to:
1. Identify means of picking up and transferring a container to an autoclave for sterilization
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Working in 2 groups of 2 students, each group will complete one of the following:
2. Design a container that securely holds a surgical tool for sterilization (modelling sub-team)
3. Design a computer program for operating a robotic arm (computation sub-team)
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Once again in a team of 4 students, we will be required to:
4. Demonstrate functionality and correctness of our design