Project 2

The goal for this project was to securely hold and transport medical tools to an autoclave where they would be sterilized. This was achieved by designing a container to hold a medical tool, specifically a retractor, and programming a robotic arm to transport and sort the containers into different autoclaves. I was the group's project manager, this meant that I had the responsibility to make sure the group met timelines, overviewed all the work we were completing, made sure all group members were content, and just overall, having full attention on all aspects of the project. For sub-teams, I was the lead on the modeling sub-team, this meant my focus would be mostly on creating a container that would fit all the objectives, constraints, and functions needed. It was up to my partner and I in creating a design that would allow facilitation of steam for sterilization, full security of the tool, follow numbered constraints in size and production factors, and many other things. We made multiple sketches and took elements from each sketch. I used Autodesk Inventor to CAD the initial container. Over various milestones and checkpoints, the container was altered and recreated to make sure it was perfect for the tool we were given to secure. The coding sub-team focused mainly on the code and ensuring that the robotic arm would flawlessly perform the transportation of a mock container in a simulation. I helped look over code and made sure the code was flawless once the computing sub-team had a presentable code. The sub-teams worked together throughout the whole project to ensure we had come up with a viable solution to the task we were given.