Who are we ?
Our team is composed of: Pascal, Anais, Lucas, Clémence, Clément, Rémi, Yannis, Jean, Olivier, Guillaume and Karla.
We are eleven engineering students from the Mines d’Alès School studying mechatronics.
Clément is the leader of the team. Besides from leading the group, Clément works with Rémi on the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and on the kinematic analysis of the robot. Olivier oversees the parts mechanical dimensioning. Guillaume and Anais have the mission to define what onboard electronics were needed. Jean and Pascal are focus on the engines sizing. Lucas’ task is to learn how Robot Operating System works to consider using this advanced tool for our project. Finally, Karla, Clémence and Yannis pay a particular attention to the architecture of the informatic code.
Why did we choose this design ?
The first four groups have built their robot with wheels and caterpillars, so we thought “How can we improve this robot without using something that have been already used before?”
As we were searching for ideas, we came upon Spot, a quadruped robot designed by Boston Dynamics and upon Cheetah, another quadruped robot designed this time by the MIT.
(Spot - Boston Dynamics)
(Cheetah - MIT)
As we dived into four-legged robots, we came across another one. Designed by Toshiba back in 2012, its goal was to investigate the irradiated areas of the Fukushima’s nuclear plant.
That was it. That was the idea we wanted, the idea we needed.
And here is our first CAD version, take a look :
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