• Robotics and Mechanical Design

    Anuvadak - A pipe traversing robot

    I will keep this blog short and sweet. So, it was the time when I just came back from my NUS internship and I was struggling to catchup with the coursework and the projects that I was working on. Then Prof. N. P. Gulhane (A Mech engineering proff who taught heat transfer to us and was also managing the TPO of VJTI) called SRA peeps saying that he recieved a call from L&T to provide them a robotic solution to establish communication with the trapped labours in the Himachal tunnel incident.

    FYP Presentation day

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    We immediately gathered team of 7 to start conceptualizing the design and making the basic circuitary ready

    We discussed some designs and bunked all the lectures using the Gulhane Sir's name to bail out of everything, we got the design ready by 3:30 PM (Thanks to Janhavi Deshpande, a really cool and hardworking friend that I have). Then we got it printing with the help of Extrudify and got the first print on the same night, then we assembled and found flaws with the main chassis and decided not to 3D print it. Instead, we went to laser cut it from aluminium sheet

    Anyways after night long soldering, 2 iterations and so much hardwork we finally got it working. We even used some bolts as the arms as the previous arms were 3D printed and fragile in nature. We even ideated some suspension design in-order to compensate for diametrical changes in the piping system.