1. Principles and practices¶
This week I worked on defining my final project idea.
Requirements¶
As I work in the wireless development field, one challenge I face is to do the measurements in the outdoors. The setup roughly consists of an antenna panel with amplifiers and other equipment mounted on a movable stand. Depending on the goals of the measurement campaign, the antenna panel is rotated and moved manually in different directions and measurements are recorded. As expected, this is rather cumbersome task and this is the challenge I want to automate and tackle during my final project.
I want to make a mount for a a cuboid which weighs roughly about 5 Kgs and have dimensions of 30 by 40 cms and a depth of about 20 cms. The mount should have 6 degrees of freedom. First three degrees are related to linear movement along X,Y and Z axis and the other three degrees are related to rotation along X, Y and Z axis. A rough sketch showing the three ratational axis is shown in the sketch below 
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