7. Conclusions & Future Work (GC)

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