Autonoma leverans system
- Post by: Tobias Larsson
- 10th August 2026
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Mekatroniskt projekt
Programme: Course project (add course code below in comment)
Course: MT1569
Corporate partner: –
Completed: May 2026
Challenge: The challenge was to develop an autonomous mekatronic system (a robot) that could sort and deliver balls into designated boxes according to a strict set of technical rules and constraints. The main difficulty lay in ensuring the robot could handle all tasks—navigation, material collection, and docking—completely independently while maintaining high reliability and robustness under execution.
Solution: The team developed a simple and robust autonomous robot equipped with sensors, motors, and tailored software. To ensure mechanical reliability, a custom-built gearbox was integrated to reduce the load on the motor shafts. The software and hardware were tightly integrated, allowing the robot to navigate the track, collect the materials, and dock with high precision without losing any items along the way.
Impact: The robot demonstrated high functionality on competition day, successfully completing the track on its very first attempt, delivering 4 balls into the correct boxes with 0 lost, which earned the team a 2nd place finish. The project proved that combining simple, reliable mechanical features with precise programming creates a highly dependable system. For the team, the impact was a deep learning experience in agile project development, resource management, and hardware-software integration.
Prototypes: Yes, we developed an autonomous robot prototype using a mechatronic platform integrated with sensors and motors controlled by custom software. A key physical component of the prototype was a custom-built gearbox designed to reduce the physical load on the motor shafts. Through prototyping, we learnt how crucial it is to design for simplicity and mechanical robustness. We also experienced firsthand how extensive, iterative testing is essential to minimize errors and ensure that software and hardware function reliably together as a unified system under execution.
Project team:
- Mechanical engineering calss of 2029
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