The design process for this project was broken down into four different stages. First the customer requirements were attained through customer interviews, and these requirements were then translated into engineering requirements. A house of quality was used to ensure all the engineering requirements satisfied the customer requirements as well as any other requirements the team deemed necessary. This process is show in the Problem Definition. From there a functional decomposition was used to break down the project into its constituents. Benchmarking was performed to understand what current technologies were being used in similar applications. These technologies were combined in a morphological chart and then analyzed using a pugh chart to determine which combination of technologies would work best for our project. A feasibility analysis was performed to ensure all technologies would be applicable to our project. All of this is summarized in the System Design. From there, the project was broken down into three subsystems: Control, Navigation, and Force Actuation. Preliminary designs were worked up for each and a bill of materials was generated for the needed parts. This is shown in the Subsystem Design. The particulars of each subsystem were then designed and combined together to create out Detailed Design. This detailed design encompassed everything we planned on doing with this project. Although some modification were made as the project was built, the overall design remained fairly consistent.
