Small Scale Switch Design Team 2019

Fourth week 7/22/2019 - 7/27/2019 : (More) Improving Designs On monday meeting at 4pm with Ron, Pr. Furman, Eric, Ethan and Jacques-Hariel we talked about the designs of the last week. We introduced Thomas (Jisup) who is an industrial design major and he talked with Pr. Furman about his participation in the projet and about the work done by the last industrial design majors. We had another meeting at 6h30 with Daniel and he gave some ideas to simplify the switch of the 2 floors bogie (crank rod system) and proposed to make the switch axis smaller to improve the stability. Jacques-Hariel worked on this from tuesday until the and of the week and modified the 2 floor bogie (Bogie model 3). Bogie Model 3 Bogie Model 3.1 On the model 3.1, the switch axis is smaller (on top) and servo (in blue) is rotated to decrease the number of parts. However, this system is kinematiclly not working, we you use a rod from the servo and

Third Week | 7/8/2019 - 7/12/2019: Refining Designs Meeting Synopsis We started this week with the monday 10am meeting with Ethan and Jacques-Hariel at the Superway local,  Ron and Eric on Skype. We discussed about the last designs :Two floors guideway system of Jacques-Hariel and the Single drive pair of Ethan. On the first one, Eric recommend to improve it by making it symmetrical for a better  distribution of the weight and a better stability; Maybe using 4 wheels rather than only 2 on one side.   Eric’s draft We also got a concern about the guideway system impacting the width of the podcar and some collision with the bottom part of the bogie when the podcar goes straight. Problem illustration The evening we got a  meeting with the Alumini at the local, Ron and Daniel on video call. We discussed again about the last designs and manufacturing aspect. We got constructive critics about the solutions from Daniel and sereval ways to improve