Complete side view of robot.Me laying down next to robotWire and hydraulic connections for modular robot units.Putting robot in vault.Diagram of robot parts.

Tunnel Cleaning Robot

A modular robot to clean delivery tunnels.

23' - 24'


* Thanks Gabe for tanking this project with me. *


Onshape

Manufacturing

Python

EE






Contribution

I built a modular robot to clean our delivery tunnels. The robot was separated into parts as a single giant robot cannot fit through the small vaults that accessed our tunnels. The front section had a hydrojet, followed by a vacuum which fed water into a pump. There was another cart that acted as the locomotive and finally one for electronics. I led design, manufacturing, and testing for this project.

Improvement

I thought calculations would make it so I didn't have to worry about it but I should've added a tensioner on the locomotive chain to stop skipping. Future version also shouldn't pump water straight out of tunnel, instead better to store water in vacuum and shuttle out.