Thesis AI Engineering Student : suction cup swapper

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Company Description Movu Robotics: Innovation, ambitious growth, technology, state-of-the-art robots – that’s Movu Robotics in a nutshell. Due to the in-house design and manufacturing process of our systems, an exciting, hands-on work environment with plenty of challenges and advancement opportunities is guaranteed. Will you help shape the future of intralogistics? Job Description: 1.1 Goal: Conceptualize, design, manufacture and test a system to be able to swap suction cups on the-fly on our current vacuum tools for the Cognibotics robot. 1.2 Components 1.3 Preferences 1.4 Process - Robot side - Tool side - Air filter - (Modular) tool holder - On-the-fly swap, no stops - Easy to swap suctions cups in tool holder (manually) - Useable with current vacuum tool or future tools -> adapters for tool side - Useable with different sizes (threads) of suction cups -> adapters for suction cup side - Lightweight (alu, plastics) - Low maintenance (low number of parts, durable gaskets, no lubricants, durable sliding components, …) - Low cost (low number of parts, easily made) - Airtight with minimal sealing degradation over time - Market study - Concept study (hold/release systems, sealing syst...