Week 3

During week three we begin by communicating with the sub-teams conforming the half scale design. This was of importance this week as we begin to really plan our future deadlines and it what manner we want to achieve the best results. When communicated with the rest of our peers, the ideas of each one come into light. By knowing the ideas and different prospective design ideas of each member, we can design the parts accordingly thus avoiding future parts which may not fit the final design. After, the planification and scheduling of what task will be taking place was determined. From, designing to testing was planed in order to obtain the best scope and also to have deadlines that will help us plan better our tasks. Once those details were finalized, we began working a little more in depth in the project. In my specific sub-team, bogie and steering, we began analyzing our ideas and computing some numbers to see which feature will be more reliable and the best to implement in the design. Personally, I started working in the steering motion and the linkage that we would like to use. I noticed that a four bar linkage can be implemented in order to move the steering accordingly. As such, the derivation for the linkage was done with variables involved. An excel sheet was crated to plug in values which will describe the behavior of mechanism which will lead to the best design for steering as well as the location of such mechanism. This week became of high productivity and as such, the communication and designing of the project will continue.