Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a research institute that focuses on plant biology, neuroscience, genetics, and immunology. One of those areas is monitoring large numbers of plant samples in a controlled environment. Currently, Salk is manually scanning each sample, which is inefficient in both cost and time. Salk is requesting a pick and place gantry system to take the petri dishes from their holder to the scanner and back to their holder. Doing this will cut back on human interaction and have a machine do this repetitive act continuously which protects people from getting injured doing the same motions for multiple hours.
Semester of Project:
Fall 2023
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Problem Statement/Summary:
Salk is requesting a novel system that optimizes and expedites data acquisition from many experiments involving plant growth. The client requires the system to use actuators and motors to move petri dishes on and off a scanner, thus allowing the ability t
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SOET
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https://www.salk.edu
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salk
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mpelle@purdue.edu