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Autonomous Tool Changer

Draper is a not-for-profit engineering research and development company that creates innovative solutions for customers in government and commercial sectors. As part of their current research in autonomous mobile manipulation, Draper is developing a system to enable a robotic arm to work with human tools in human environments. Through Olin’s SCOPE program, Olin students worked for Draper on developing an autonomous tool changer for the robotic arm; they developed the code, built the apparatus, and tested the tool changer on a robot arm to perform simple mechanical tasks.

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Faculty Advisor

Drew Bennett

Team Members

Lindsey Andrade

Claire Beery

Halley Pollock-Muskin

Raagini Rameshwar

 

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