2024 / Project
Mobile Delivery Robot
A team-built autonomous delivery-robot prototype with a custom frame, steering system, cup-handling mechanism, electronics, and 3D-printed interfaces.
This team project developed a compact mobile robot intended to transport and hand over a cup.
The concept used a 20 mm aluminum-extrusion frame, a drive motor with encoder feedback, motorized steering, a rotating cantilever delivery arm, and a servo gripper. The development process covered frame and wheel assembly, motor and steering integration, electronics around an ESP32, control programming, and iterative prototyping of the pick-and-place mechanism.
My documented responsibility included 3D-printing work for mechanical interfaces. Some parts, such as an ABS pillow-block spacer, progressed to final pieces; other PLA steering components were iterated as the geometry and assembly evolved.
This was an earlier, rougher mechatronics build than the later ROS 2 robot, but it established habits that carried forward: design around interfaces, prototype quickly, record weekly progress, and expect mechanics, electronics, and software to constrain each other.