Orthographic Projection of Payne Reed’s Design
Payne Reed’s design. My design was based on three wheels and one motor. The third wheel will have rubber on the wheel touching the bar and this will move the AEV forward and back using friction. To decrease the amount of energy that is required to move the AEV the second motor will have the propeller on it and will push the AEV forward. Then the motor will be able to rotate with the servo that is connected to it and will push the AEV back to where the AEV started. The support arm will be the T version so that the center of mass is evenly distributed throughout the AEV. The arduino nano will be put on the side of the vertical plastic structure. The servo is in the middle of my design that I made but together as a group we found out that this idea would not work because the propellers will be blocked and hit against the bottom of the AEV. So we decided to move it to the end of the AEV.
Orthographic Projection of Jacob Carey’s Design
Jacob Carey’s Design. My design was based on having three wheels and two motors. The reason for a third wheel instead of just two was to have more grip on the track. The motors were placed on opposite sides of the AEV so that one motors and propeller would push the cart one direction when it is needed and then the opposite direction when needing to go the opposite way. Also, in my design I had the flaps on the sides but flat instead of at an angle because I thought that if the were flat, it would create lift when going in both directions instead of just one direction. I put the lipo onto the bottom of the AEV and I had the Arduino on the back part of the AEV. For the actual platform that the wheels go on, I used a T shaped platform instead of an L shaped because I believed that the platform/AEV would be more balanced by having this instead of tilting up a certain direction because of the L shape.
Orthographic Projection of Cameron Troesch’s Design
Cameron Troesch’s Design. This design was based around the idea that the propellers were most efficient when spinning in the one direction that the the propellers were designed for. My central idea was that energy would, overall, be saved by using the Servo to turn the propellers to face the desired direction. But rather than moving the motors individually, they would both be moved on a platform that is based on a pivot point. While the weight would be increased, it would justified by the new efficiency of the propeller motors. This belief of the direction of the propeller being considerably more efficient in the intended direction is what was the focus of my design.
Orthographic Projection of Brandon Klailee’s Design
Brandon Klailee’s Design. My design has 3 wheels and one propeller at the end. The middle wheel is a drive wheel with a motor connected to it so there is a direct connection to the rail. This design would allow us to have a direct connection to the rail making the AEV easier to control and the propeller on the back would give the AEV a small boost. The things that the team didn’t like is that the propeller should be on the bottom and not the back so it can be on a servo and is allowed to rotate when changing directions. Another thing that they wanted to change is that we are going to have a drive chain connected to the drive wheel instead of having a motor directly connected to it so we can change the gear ratio easily. The last thing that they wanted to change is that the drive wheel should be on the ends of the AEV instead of being in the middle because it might not always have contact to the rail. The thing that they did like about my design is that we have a drive wheel making it easier to control the distance and speed it moves at.
The final team design we decided that the top view and the bottom view was not necessary because it wouldn’t show as much detail on the drawing. So we did the side and front view. The design has 3 wheels, and the third wheel will use friction with the rubber attached to the wheel and make the AEV move forward and backward. The wheel will have a sprocket and chain mechanism that will rotate the wheel. The motor with the propeller will be on the end of the AEV and the motor will rotate based on which way the AEV wants to move. It will be attached to the servo and will rotate the motor 180 degrees. The T shaped design will be used and will attach directly to the base.
Summary Of This Lab: Each member of the group was suppose to have their design of what they each thought the AEV should look like for the actual project. We then shared each of the orthographic drawing to each other and discussed which one we thought was the best and what we wanted to incorporate into the final design. We decided that Payne’s was the best and that we would incorporate his ideas in the final. The main thing that we took away from his design was the spinning turbine at the bottom of the AEV and the wheel that will have rubber on it and use the motor to turn wheel and propel it forward.