dynamic obstacle experiment

In summer 2019, I interned at Fetch Robotics, a warehouse robotics company. As part of my internship, I designed and built a prototype of an experimental setup to test how well their robots could respond to dynamic obstacles that crossed their path. I designed a rack and pinion mechanism controlled by a single motor. Once a robot came within a certain distance of the mechanism, it would trigger a photoreflective sensor that then spun the motor and moved the obstacle. A video of the moving mechanism is shown below.