Robotic Lawnmower Design

Abstract

[ES] Diseño de los componentes mecánicos y estructurales de un cortacésped robot.

[EN] The project team existing of Sascha Becker, Yilmaz Bingöl, Germán Merino and Fernando Ruiz worked as a part of the European Project Semester for the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes, which is a school for technical engineers. The European Project Semester (EPS) is a 16-week program with the main goal of improving crosscultural and multidisciplinary teamwork skills of students from different countries. Being one of 12 universities in Europe offering the EPS, the École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes offers every spring a list of different projects. The main subject of the semester is the project. This has to be done between three and five people with ideally different studies and nationalities. In the beginning of the semester the project groups discussed their proposal and finally chose one subject to work on as part of a project for the whole semester. Every project team is supervised by technical and management supervisors. Through the project, meetings with the supervisors will help the group to get along with their project and solve different occurring problems. In addition, the students had to plan and control the progress of the project with different tools and strategies that were learned and implemented in the project management lessons of Philippe Fillatreau. These lessons taught the students how to manage different issues within a project like time, quality and planning. Using Microsoft Project after practical sessions, the project team was capable to create a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart managing the plan for the project work, which were led by Mrs. Beth Spears-Graux.