Quality & Reliability: McKibben Muscle
Quality & Reliability: McKibben Muscle
Overview
Students will work individually to create their own McKibben Muscle under a set of constraints and manufacturing conditions. The class sample of McKibben Muscles will each be tested for different criteria (ex: length, inflation diameter). Each student will perform statistical analysis using the data from the entire class and determine if their own sample product is reliable and falls within the set constraints and conditions.
Core concepts and theory of Quality & Reliability are sourced from the textbook:
T. R. Chandrupatla, Quality and reliability in engineering. Cambridge, Angleterre: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Course Implementation
Course(s) Implemented: Quality and Reliability
Fundemental Engineering Concepts:
- Sampling Concepts
- Data Presentation
- Statistical Process Control*
- Process Capability Analysis*
Note: These concepts require data being analyzed over a period of time. Infomation on how to incorporate these concepts can be found in project description
Pre-requisite courses/topics needed:
- Quality Concepts
- Tolerance and Fits
- Geometric Tolerances
- Elements of probability and statistics
- MATLAB, Python, or Excel
Expected Timeline: 4-6 Weeks
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain experience using basic soft robotic actuator
- Quality of communication and presentation of data
- Calculating data parameters and performing further analysis using individual and class data
- Identify potential data outliers and manufacturing process flaws
Theory Application
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Project Description
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Sample Prototype
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