Robotic Arm for cleaning oil tanks in the ship
The project is based on real industrial problem faced by ship maintenance industry. Cleaning of oil tank is major issue and hazardous to human who enters oil tank so we decided to build a prototype of a bot which will clean the oil tank automatically. Initially we thought of designing a hydraulic lift with robotic arm mounted on it, but it would not withstand high pressure fluids passing through pipe due to momentum. So we decided to build a moving bot in which the arm will be mounted on the rover tank with Magnetic caterpillar track. We started creating 3D sketches by traditional designing practices on paper and kept on modifying sketches. Here are some photos of model drawn by hands. Initial Stage Sketching Modified Initial sketch After completing 3D sketch...