First I started this assignment by making as schedule planning on what to on what week, I did this by making an excel document with weeks on it to and highlighting the weeks showing which tasks I will be doing on the highlighted weeks. I updated the schedule every week when ever I couldn't get a part of work done on the week it was supposed to be done. shown below is an example of a schedule of one of the weeks, the schedule really helped me to keep on track and get all the tasks done before the deadline
I then started to research on well known robots in games and movies and then used those ideas to combine and create the best robot to my ability, this task helped me to come up with the perfect idea for a robot to design. I looked at robots from movies, games and also concepts of robots that could be released in the future. The robot from big hero six baymax influenced me to go ahead and design a nursing robot or a medical assistant. But I used a humanoid form for my robot inspired by C3PO from starwars. With all of these robots I created a mood board with with pictures of the robots and some information about them under it.
I then Started to do the ideas generation to see what the purpose of the robot is going to be. I looked into different fields such as what kind of work field where the robot can help in. I looked into Defense such as the military, entertainment and just jobs like doctors teacher and other skilled jobs. I then used the software called "mind Genius " to create a chart with all of these jobs as required in the task. This helped me to really explore into different options of jobs that are available as work. The graph is shown below
After I chose to make a medical assistant that would help doctors in surgery and other tasks, so technically a nurse. I designed the robot to have more flexibility with fingers so that it would work better in any medical environment. I gave it cameras and sensors that will help the robot to perform scans on the go which will also be really helpful when used with emergency services. Rather than taking the patients to the hospital to perform the scan they can use this robot to perform a full body scan on tend to the perform while its on the way. I designed 2 robots for this job and the robot design I used to model Shown below is the front view of the robot I designed.
I then started modelling the robot while using the design on paper as a guide to produce a 3D model. It took a while and took a little getting used to because I have previous experience with auto cad and the interface of this completely different. I had to get used where everything thing is and use different tools than I did in auto-cad. by this point the time was running out so i had to finish the base model as soon as possible and then worry about the little details after. In the end i managed to produce the model using Light wave modeler right on time as the schedule and i was also able add all the details after, I also had to import the model to layout mode in modeler to take the pictures of the models with all the details and textures. shown below are some of the snapshots of the model I made and after its textured.
Overall this assignment went really well and according to schedule because i managed to get all of my work done on time, so i also had some time left to improve on my work.
