Week 2: Group forming and Task

On week two we were assigned to our designated sub-project teams for this years Spartan Superway work. The Team I am in is the Half-Scale Suspension team with my group members Joshua Moreno and Colin Wong. One of the primary objectives for our group as discussed with Dr. Furman and Eric Hagstrom is to create some kind of leveling system for the pod cars that will enable a comfortable ride. Currently the pod car will ascend or descend with the same slope as the rails which means the passengers will experience something similar to a roller coaster ascending and that needs to be fixed with a passive or active suspension system. We hope that our design will be able to solve this problem as it is our primary objective. Things to consider as we set up our Lighting Talk presentation is the specifications we need to address for our objective to be fulfilled.  I have started browsing the archives of past work to understand what worked and what didn't work for the previous academic groups that where in the Half-Scale Suspension team.