My research

Hello all,

My research involves developing a pneumatic demonstrator. The demonstrator is meant to be an educational tool to help introduce junior and senior high school students to the topic fluid power. Due to extraneous factors such as limited funding and exposure time, students don’t consider fluid power as a topic of research. A compact and portable pneumatic demonstrator will be a useful tool to facilitate fluid power education through increased engagement. The demonstrator uses an Arduino Mega micro-controller to perform the required processing. Using two pneumatic cylinder fixed in a 90 degree angle to achieve X and Y direction the demonstrator can move in a way to cover a horizontal plane. The movement can be controlled using an analogue joystick. The Arduino Mega also incorporates a camera that can be used to identify objects on the horizontal plane . Using the feedback from the camera, the demonstrator will be able to automatically locate
objects on the horizontal plane, pick them up and move them about using pneumatic pressure. The action of picking up the objects is accomplished using a stepper motor with and an electromagnet attached to an arm that can be lowered and raised. This projects aims to garner interest of potential future fluid power researchers.