Integrated Transportation System:
Our AEV is designed to best support our solution to our social issue of completing laundry on a collegiate campus. Our AEV will be able to signal a gate to open, like a person signaling an automatic door to open. The team’s AEV will also be able to hold a laundry basket full of clothes that is proportional to the size of the AEV. The AEV will mock the path a human would travel in the dorms to complete their laundry. A table will be listed below that includes all of the AEV design requirements that will be necessary for our AEV to function properly, and mock the path of an actual human.
Vehicle Design Requirements Table:
| Requirement | Vehicle Range | Vehicle Ideal | PV Range | PV Ideal |
| Does not fall off track | Person does not fall while walking | Person does not fall at all | PV does not fall at all | PV does not fall at all |
| Should be able to carry basket and clothes | Prevents the majority of clothes being spilled/basket being dropped | Prevents all clothing from getting dropped | Prevents the majority of coins and cotton balls from being dropped | Prevents all coins and cotton balls from being dropped |
| Vehicle should not hit the end of the straight track | Generally avoids walls, machines, or other people with baskets | Doesn’t hit the walls, machines, or people with baskets | Can get as close as possible to the end of the track without touching it | Does not touch the end of the track at all |
| Vehicle Meets weight requirements | Vehicle range 140-160 pounds | 150 pounds | PV should weigh from 8 oz to 12 oz | 10 oz |
| PV able to stop accurately on the Circle Track | Doesn’t drastically change the route taken by the students on the floor | Doesn’t change the route taken at all | Stop within a foot of the target range on the circle track | Stops at the exact target range on the track |
| PV able to stop at motion detectors and go through barriers/ gates | Able to work through all doors on on campus, acceptable if does not function through one gate/door on campus | Able to operate without failure | Able to work through the AEV gates on the track. | Able to operate without failure |