Teddy Bear Wheelchair

First Year Engineering Design Project

Creation of an automated Teddy Bear Wheel Chair (TBWC) with a small team of four multidisciplinary student engineers.
With specific constraints, requirements, and goals we created the ideal TBWC to perform in the skills competition between our fellow engineering peers near the end of the semester.
Goal orientation consisted of the machine to meet competition requirements of performing on two separate tracks; one track consisted of the rolling chassis test and the other track consisted of the functionality of the kicking mechanism.

Design procedure incorporated Auto-CAD electrical drawings, SolidWorks parts and assembly drawings, as well as schematics and Arduino programming code.
Build procedure incorporated a Meccano Kit, Arduino, and other electrical/hardware components to best fit the ideal machine.
Goal of project was to incorporate safety and environment sustainability when creating a prototype and final design of the TBWC.

Included a Life Cycle Analysis with the components used and their manufactured parts, along with mass determination and tipping analysis to meet the safety requirements.
Final product passed all of the safety, tipping, and mass procedures along with being the most aesthetic and environmentally sustained.
Final product also completed both tracks of the automated run and the launching mechanism to shoot a ball over an obstacle into a net.

This first year project taught us how to work under constraints, requirements, and quick deadlines to create the most ideal machine to perform in a competition, along side of meeting the safety and environmentally friendly requirements.
With this group oriented project, it created leadership, goal oriented mentality, and time management skills working under a specific time set using engineering skills, strategies, and tactics to meet the long-term and short-term goals.