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Professional profile

Multidisciplinary engineer, focused in product desing
University Projects

• Animatronic system
• Haptic system
Job Experience

Plastic product designer and injection mold designer
Goals

Apprenticeship training in plastic industry
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ANIMATRONIC SYSTEM

 

In 2003 I developed an animatronic system as a mechatronic design area project, obtaining a physical prototype that allows to represent its functionality. Its conception was realized following the structured design method QFD (Quality Function Deployment). A method that focused in guarantying client satisfaction bearing in mind his needs, manufacture, assemble and maintenance of product.

 

 

The animatronic possesses five grades of freedom that execute the basic movements of the face by means of servomotors, gesticulates voice recordings reproducing a compact disc with 80 minutes of audio capacity, react to external stimulus using movement sensors and possesses a serial interface to communicate with PC for its programming.

 

  

Based on a Microchip microcontroller, I made the electronic system shown below to control the animatronic, this is the equivalent to its brain, this process and manipulates the information, giving to the animatronic certain autonomy to its functions.

 

The animatronic is at present in “El Museo National de Transporte” Cali, Colombia (The National Transport Museum) reciting an introduction to visitors of the railroad miniature.

 

 

 

HAPTIC SYSTEM

In 2004 I developed an haptic system as a dynamic systems project area This virtual laboratory allows students to model and analyze dynamic systems setting the wished parameters of mass, springs and damper coefficients, in addition to experiencing the physical phenomena as: stickiness, damping, rigidity and inertia. Using sense of tact, theoretical concepts are connected with the physical reality in a virtual ambience.


The system response is visualized in the software charting variables of position, speed and acceleration, in addition to analyze other typical dynamic systems concepts as natural frequency, damping factor and stabilization time.

 

 

 

The hardware possesses a cogwheels train joined to a magnetic brake implemented like actuator. The communication is realized with a Microchip microcontroller.


  Cali, Colombia 2006   www.mecatronica.iwarp.com   oscar.gomez@unionplastica.com