- Weekly Team Meeting (4hr)
- Researched different ways to implement our speed up coils. Leaning toward the H-Bridge Design
- Researched different ways to implement our stop, start, and speed system. Considering creating a system centered around a magnetometer
- Finalized details of initial track and carrier design
- Mandatory Meeting (4hr)
- Discussed feedback relating to our start-stop system and how we want to go about stopping the train if blocked
- Further developed our track and carrier design
- Design Preparation (4hr)
- Collaborated with team to finalize details of our design review
- Discussed deliverables we wanted to meet throughout the project
Through out this week, my team spent time going over feedback we received from the proposal and discussed changes we could make. This result in all of us doing research on ultrasonic sensors as an alternative to LIDAR sensors. We have decided to move forward with this decision. Also, my team started considering simpler ways to implement the speed up coils. Following the feedback we received from the instructor, we decided to use the H-Bridge system due to it having many of our desired needs (such as protection from high-voltages with a fullback diode) built in.
We have finalized the designs for our carrier and track. Our carrier is designed to be light weight but able to hold the ultrasonic sensor, magnetometer, and three magnets . Our track is currently oval shaped and 450 cm across. We plan to develop a straight track for testing and our MVP.
Given that we haven’t started building the “speed-up” coils, we are behind schedule. We plan to order the parts for this component this week so we can start the build process. We also plan on updating our schedule.