Our team has been hired by Smart City of Columbus to create a transportation system that will transport people from Linden to Easton and Polaris as efficiently and safely as possible. Our team will be using an AEV suspended from a monorail to run an test this transportation system.
Team B’s Approach to the Mission Concept Review (MCR)
- Carefully planning budget so as not to go over the budget of $500,000.
- Revising work on AEV carefully in order to increase accuracy so as to minimize trial runs ($125,000 per run) and $500 per joule expended during the trial run.
- Avoiding safety violations due to lack proper revision and co-operation to avoid penalties of $50,000 for fire and $15,000 everytime the AEV falls off track.
- Maintaining communication with Smart City Grant staff and contact the appropriate personnel for any issues encontered.
- Maintain constant communication with division members and company members in order to effectively allocate tasks to members to avoid waste of time and effort.
- Efficiency and low cost should be a major factor in any decisions made for this project.
- Primary objective is to get the AEV running within the requested parameters.
- Secondary objective further improvements added after considering the budget.
Team B’s first steps would be to create and design prototypes for our AEV system. We would like our design to be as efficient as possible, and for our system to not require much funding. After the creation of our prototype we will then run several test to see if our stem can work functionally in a real world situations. Those test include stopping at a gate using reflective sensors. Having our AEV stop at loading zones, to load material and return to the starting dock. These test will help simulate real world environments and we can use this data to help better enhance our design and create a efficient product.