- NICHOLAS BAKER -

Mechanical and hydraulic design of sub-sea recovery equipment, including stress analysis. This equipment is able to recover heavy concrete mattresses of different sizes from the sea bed.

This camera housing was designed using Pro/Engineer surfacing and was designed for use in explosive environments.

A robot is something that performs multiple tasks. I developed this one that lives on the side of a ship, removing algae from the hull whilst the ship is operational, saving costly downtime and fuel and reducing cross-contamination.

As well as working on conventional diesel engines used for power generation and marine propulsion, I helped develop a small 2-stroke diesel engine for light aircraft. It has 5-cylinders and 10 pistons with a total displacement of approximately 4-litres, and produces 360kW power.

The use of robot arms for repetitive, precision or safety critical operations, such as material handling, assembly, welding and machining. The machine loading equipment shown continuously loads billets into a CNC machine, unloading/ storing them when machining has finished, 24/7.

Automated equipment that separates blood into its constituent parts, removes the thin layer of plasma where DNA is held, seals in 8mm phials and then stores them at either -20 or -80 degrees C for UK Biobank. Robots provide the storage and recovery.

Shown is a differential planetary gearbox matched to a frameless torque motor providing a gear ratio of 36.4:1 in a very compact assembly. This assembly provides motion to a robot that operates in the sea, so is fully sealed and corrosion proof.

I have worked on several static and full-motion flight simulators for various customers around the world. Hydraulic rams provide motion to a yaw-platform which supports a realistic cockpit to help pilots to become better at what they do.