Initial Design

The group came up with four designs(in the Design Tab) that had their own spin off of the AEV vehicle. Adam’s design was inspired by a picture of a random spaceship from Google image. The Star Wars theme in this AEV project makes him thinks of a spaceship design. The design is simple and easy to built. The wing makes the AEV more stable and adds the elegance look to it. Since there is a balancing issue that the team faced earlier when moving the AEV, Adam thought the wing is a right approach to solve the problem. The weight of the design (body) is pretty light in order to increase the efficiency rate and make it move easily. The accessory for the design is the additional dots at the front of the AEV that makes it looks like front light. Izzat’s design is pretty similar to Adam’s design because both of them look like spaceship or rocket design. The design has the propeller at the back so that the AEV can have more power to move faster since the team already dealt with the starting projection several times. The 3D printed body was designed to reduce the drag force because more speed will be generated when the drag force is less. John’s design looks like a cylinder from the back. The reason is he want to have the AEV gain more stability and to prevent all the wires and stuffs like battery and Arduino to look messy. Though it might be heavier than others’ design, it is the most stable than others. Ahmad’s design looks like a boat. He thinks that it will be much easier to set up the stuffs on the AEV design plus it gives more stability than the old one. The 3D print design used also make the design lighter which makes the AEV faster to move. While discussing the pros and cons of each design, the group came to a conclusion about the design of the AEV as the team have a problem regarding the stability of reference AEV. So, the group mostly focused on the efficiency, stability and environmental of the AEV while creating the orthographic designs, the team thought it would be best if a design used had both an efficient body as well as a large base. The group designed a fifth design that incorporated all of the necessary improvements for the AEV.