Screening Matrices

Below are the screening matrices for the chassis, drive-train, and four major tasks. All six of these are given in the same spreadsheet. These matrices work as follows. First, criteria for drivetrain, chassis, and mechanism success were established. The screening matrices functioned by first establishing a reference design with the hope of weeding out inferior criteria. Positive signs were awarded to designs better than the reference design in a criterion, negative signs were awarded to designs worse than the reference, and zeros were awarded to designs comparable to the reference design. These were tallied up to determine the best few designs that would be further considered. The sheets on the document embedded below contain all of the necessary information from these screening matrices.