Working as a part of a larger team, the project brief was to design a golf course rover which would be able to spread fertilizer across the golf course, given GPS co-ordinates from a quadcopter. The team was divided into 3 sub-teams to tackle different aspects of the product. Our team was to focus on the design of the frame; which included designing a robust suspension system, ensuring proper weight-distribution, as well as designing a suitable dispersal system for the fertilizer.
Working with such a large team, across 3 different sub-teams, required great amounts of organisation and communication. As the frame sub-team, we had to ensure the other teams mechanisms and components would be housed safely.
Although working on most aspects of the project, my largest contributions were the design of the hopper and dispersal system, the outer-casing for the buggy and the component layout to ensure proper weight distribution.
