Bachelor Assignment

Prototype tyres are usually carved by hand in order to prevent wasting an entirely new mould on an unproven design. The longitudinal grooves, which are the grooves that go all around the tyre, are the most difficult to get right and their straightness is crucial when testing the performance of a carved tyre. 

A prototype of a machine was designed which enabled the user to make such grooves. Robotic arms already exist which can carve a full prototype tyre, but the final version of the machine developed in this assignment could be cheaper by several magnitudes. The trade-off is that using this machine takes a bit of time to set up properly, but using it provides much more accurate results than carving by hand.

Due to confidentiality the full prototype cannot be shown.