Engineering Design Process
Here's a typical approach from Wikipedia (
link):
- Research
- Feasibility
- Conceptualization
- Design requirements
- Preliminary design
- Detailed design
- Production planning and tool design
- Production
For this drive platform project, we'll use an abbreviated version. We've already decided the platform will be a Mecanum system. The project is based on previous years' platforms. We'll skip to the "Design Requirements" step and capture previous design work in a document called "User Requirements Specification".
Here's a video of our previous version on the modular Mecanum drive platform:
