PhDSupervision:Dhananjay Ipparthi
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Personal Information
Name: Dhananjay Ipparthi
Date of arrival in Brussels: 08th February, 2012
Home address: Rue des Vierges 58, 1000 Bruxelles
Telephone number: +32 483 382 207
Milestones
- Ring assemble demo in Paderborn, 20th August 2013
- Decision of continuation of fellowship, 31st January, 2014
Academic Activities
17th - 21st June, 2013
Plan
- Purchase acrylic sheets, MDF boards, sand-paper, glue [done]
- Design and fabricate container for testing in July [done v1, working on v2]
- Design coupling that will allow any container to be easily mounted onto the shaker. [done v1, working on v2]
- Update Design Journal and Technical Report.
- Design rings with lesser width
- Observe lateral bonding
Accomplishments
- Developed first self-assembling structure.
- Estimated cutting errors for the Laser Cutter [done]
- Included the design considerations needed to be taken into account because of the errors on the Laser cutter wiki [done]
- Details of the error testing File:LaserCutter Tests.pdf
Other
10th - 14th June, 2013
Plan
- Submit designs for fabrication [done]
- Ensure pieces mate before submission [done]
- Update reports and address Navneet's comments
- Reorganised files and directories [done]
- Revised time lines to reflect 2 week turn around time for 3D printing [done]
- Create entries for 20130607 [done]
- Update Design journal
- Design and fabricate lid [done]
- Design revision
- Assembly simulations in SolidWorks [done]
Other
- Procured 2 suitable glues for acrylics
- Procured magnets
- Test finishing with the 2 glues
- Cut arcs with acrylic
3rd - 7th June, 2013
Plan
- RAR defense [done]
- Set up SVN [done]
- Create two docs: Lab report and detailed report and include them in SVN [done]
- Update Lab report based on meeting with Navneet [done]
- Understood basics of SolidWorks [done]
Other
- Semi ring designed in SolidWorks
1st March, 2013
Literature Review
Project Work
- Work on FRS-FNRS Fellowship application
- Work on Self-Reproduction Review Paper
- Talk in Dubai
Development
Laboratory Activities
- Assisting in big-arena robot storage setup
Ideas
Deliverable
- Synthetic Reproduction Review Paper due by May 2013
- Defense of Report of Advancement on 17th May 2013
