Design & fabrication project · Singapore Polytechnic · 2020
An automated guided vehicle (AGV) that performs basic pick-and-place tasks, bringing together embedded electronics, mechanical design and digital fabrication.
TypeTeam project
Year2020
FabricationCNC router, Mastercam
The project
Design and fabricate a vehicle that can carry out basic pick-and-place tasks. It was achieved through iterative prototyping and refining the controls.
From CAD to CNC
The vehicle’s base plate, modelled in 3D and detailed in a 2D drawing:
- Converted the 3D Inventor parts into Mastercam files, so they worked with the campus CNC router.
- Machined selected parts, including the vehicle’s fibreglass base plate, which were key to the AGV’s assembly and function.
Skills used
Autodesk InventorMastercamCNC machiningEmbedded electronicsPrototypingTeamwork