Rotorless positioning of metal discs
Supervisor: Benjamin Aigner aignerb@technikum-wien.at
Level: Electronic related Master
For a small game table, a positioning system is necessary to move around small metal discs as game tokens.
To achieve this, a flatbed surface with integrated coils is needed. These coils should be able to move around the tokens in circles. The construction itself can be specified as a linear actuator, but the linear drive is bent to a circle.
Possible challenges:
- The movement should be fast, therefore a high driving torque is necessary.
- Should the disks be of metal or a magnetic compound?
- How to reduce the friction, because the tokens have no bearings.
- Is it possible to detect misplaced tokens?
Technologies / Requirements
Electronic design, magnetics (electrical engineering)