Boeing End Effector (Fall 2006)

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The Boeing Company, specifically the Maintenance and Ground Operations Systems (MGOS) group, has asked our team, Pacific Rim Engineering, to design a manipulating end effector. This end effector will be attached to a boom hoist and will aid maintenance personnel in the removal and installation of components requiring performance evaluation and/or servicing. The end effector will be sold to the various airlines that use Boeing aircraft in their fleets. The end effector needs to be user friendly and be designed to meet server specific physical constraints; it must allow the six basic degrees of freedom (translate side to side, up and down, in and out 3 inches, as well as have 30º of controlled rotation about the x, y and z axis), it must be able to lift upwards of 400 lbs (contained in a cube no larger than 18 inches), the effector must have an overall weight of less than 250 lbs.