Camera Robotic Arm - MIE243 University of Toronto

Our MIE243 project focused on creating a robotic arm that also mounts a camera to function as a photography/videography tool. As a team, we discussed the user and system requirements, planning out who our target audience is: Advanced Hobbyists, and we each created our own candidate designs.

For the candidate design I worked on focused on biomimicry of an animal’s tail. However, we opted for our four-bar assembly candidate design.

I designed each part for the upper assembly including the clamp and tilting DOF. The design includes 3 unique and 2 redundant DOFs, and we decided to use NEMA 19 stepper motors as our drivers.

We ran weekly team meetings to iterate on our requirements and designs, and discuss each week’s next steps, and as the Communication Liason, I focused on communicating with our TA and professors on any questions and advice, and arranging meetings between the team and TA.