Roy Gross

Under-Graduate Research Student
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Research Venue: Humanoid Robotics and CAD/CAM Manufacturing Concentration
Advisor: Dr. Paul Oh
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rjg48/

Motivation
In September 2008, the HUBO Humanoid robot will be a new research addition to the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab. Drexel Univeristy being a considerable distance from Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology creates the need for DASL to be able to provide capabilities to maintain this sophisticated mechatronic platform. To meet this need, the National Science Foundation PIRE program will send students to Daejeon, South Korea to learn first hand the design and manufacturing that goes into the HUBO robot. Also, the DASL machine shop has been busy with an overhaul of old machine equipment and has added a CNC machine. The goal is to create a similar manufacturing environment for effective maintenance or improvement of the HUBO mechatronic skeleton.

Project
Specifically, I have created a series of tutorials that outline proper and safe use of internal lab equipment in the DASL machine shop. These will be used to educate future students in the realm of CAD/CAM practices used for HUBO and other DASL projects. The tutorials give an introduction into G/M machine code, Tormach CNC Machine, and MasterCAM X2.