Week 12 (August 2- August 8)
We started our designing and prototyping for our revised 6-DOF platform. The main objective of this design is to increase ease of installation, eliminate as much error as possible, and increasing the load-bearing capabilities of the platform.
In order to achieve these, we opted to use universal joints as opposed to magnetic joints, redesigned the base adapter plate, and added a guide plate.
We expect the 6-DOF platform V2 to be robust enough to be our final version and meet our requirements of accuracy and load capabilities.
On the software front, the precision of the output values has improved as we switched from tensor flow to pure typescript for our calculations. Tensor flow has inherent precision issues but if we were to use the platform for applications involving machine learning we have the option to switch back.
We are also starting to experience problems we believe are due to buffer constraints as seen with the python code. It seems that our program is sending commands too quickly and we will have to slow it down to allow smooth movement.
Guidance plate prototype V2 “modification”
Guidance Plate V2 “installed”
