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7. Conclusions & Future Work (GC)

7. Conclusions & Future Work (GC)

Apr 29, 2023

Our project was relatively successful in accomplishing the intended goal of cleaning glasses with a linkage mechanism. However, many subsystems of the prototype were continuously modified as the project progressed due to unforeseen obstacles. Ultimately, this resulted in the final prototype being more of a first iteration prototype that can be further refined and improved in the future. If future improvements could be made to the prototype, they would consist of the following:

  • Increased structural rigidity to ensure the only moving parts of the device are the links

  • Prototyping fixed points for links to ensure the path generated by the link is a horizontal figure 8. This removes the need for the tilted base that is currently implemented into our prototype

  • Implement mechanism to clean both sides of glasses

  • Fix motor directly to structure to ensure the motor housing does not rotate as the motor is powered

  • Minimize play between links

  • Increase part precision