Drone Landing/ Charging Enclosure
Scope
One of the first projects assigned to me was updating our landing and charging base used for the autonomous drone system. They base not only housed charging electronics for the drone but also doubled as a storage space for other essential equipment.
Process
The first thing to accomplish on this project was to gather all stakeholders possible involved in the project and get feedback on what our end goal for this enclosure should be. People from product, senior team, customer client relations and engineering came up with the end goal to have a completely enclosed version of our current system that would not only charge and house equipment used on customer sites but also look appealing. Later on we met with a safety and standards company that ran us through what it would take in order to have such a piece of equipment meet regulation for various standards. This included fire, FCC, mains power and basic safety for devices in a public space.
Loose charging top not mounted to anything
Trying to figure out spacing
Electronic rat nest after updating equipment due to no mounting hardware
Copper top not straight with top of gondola shelving
Testing electronic mounting for shipment
Final enclosures from manufacturer
Modular design of internal parts
Easy to ship and ready to go out of the box
Enclosure design, fitting electronics
Lid installed to see fit and finish
Bottom of enclosure with mounting holes for internal components
Testing hinge action, hidden hinge.
Conclusion
With an end goal in mind we set out on developing an enclosure that checked all of the boxes. After going through a few revisions and talking to the safety and standards company we had a final product ready for prototyping. Lucking we have a great plastics company in town that has the ability to quickly cnc cut and plastic weld exactly what we needed. A few prototypes were built and we ran them through testing and eventually adopted the design for field use.