Key Priorities
- The final AEV design.The design of the AEV is inspired from the polyhedral wings design in the aircraft.Polyhedral means at least 2 dihedral angle with a sharp discontinuity between both.A polyhedral wing provides a compromise: a steep dihedral at the tip of the wing in order to maximize stability, and a shallower dihedral angle closer to the root in order to maximize lift. This design would help the AEV in moving up the incline plane providing additional lift and stability. This in turn would make the AEV even more safe.
- Producing the best code for the AEV.Before the final performance test the team decided to work on a different cade and compare the power used in both the codes in order to make the AEV more efficient and effective. To do so first we completed the code for a complete wun from the starting doc to the loading dock and then back to the starting dock. The graphs were obtained for the complete run. Then the code was changed and a complete run was performed with the new code. The graphs were obtained and compared to make the decision on the code to be used in the future.
- Reducing the run time and power used.For the final performance test each team was given three trials and the best out of those two trials would count towards our final grade. The aim of the final performance test was to perfect the AEV complete run starting from the starting dock through the gate to the loading dock and carry the load back to the starting dock. The team was successfully able to reduce the run time as well as the energy used by the end of the final test run.
- Safety.Group C payed special attention towards the safety of the AEV as well as the safety of our other classmates by following all the safety instructions and therefore our AEV hasn’t fallen of the track once and we don’t have any penalties for safety violation. For every run there was at least one person on each end of the track to make sure there is no safety violation or any unfortunate accident.