Aim

The overall goals for the assignment are for the team to cooperate with each other and making sure every team member participate in the whole process. Based on the Mission Concept Review(MCR), the team was assigned to build a green, energy efficient and cost effective AEV system to run on the track while follows the operational requirements, design constraints and minimizing the energy/mass ratio as the AEV has to pick up and send the cargo from the other side of the track to another. After the team had run the lab for system analysis and performance test, the team can finally decide on the final design and the final code to test it on the track .

To accomplish the Mission Concept Review, the team need to produce an efficient AEV design with the ability to complete the task of the mission. The AEV is supposed to complete the following scenario while optimizing the criteria in the Mission Concept Review in order to complete the mission. The following scenario is listed below and in the figure 1 below show the AEV track layout.

  1. The AEV will start at the Drop-off area and it will stop at the first gate
  2.  The AEV must not gets too close or too far from the gate to activate the sensor. It takes the gate 7.0 seconds to open when the sensor has been activated.
  3. After passing through the first gate, the AEV will navigate to the cargo area.
  4. The AEV must stop at the cargo area and pick up an R2-D2 and wait 5.0 seconds to verify cargo is all loaded.
  5. Then, the AEV need to travel back and stop at the previous gate.
  6. The AEV must not gets too close or too far from the gate to activate the sensor. It takes the gate 7.0 seconds to open when the sensor has been activated.
  7. Finally, the AEV navigate to the drop-off area after passing through the gate. Both wheels of the AEV must be between Mark 2 and the start point to successfully complete the mission objective. Lastly, the team must make sure that the AEV must complete the full cycle of the scenario within 2.5 minutes.