This week the group and I discussed how we might be able to reduce the pitch swinging due to the longitudinal acceleration. It was found from the previous calculation that 14.3 degrees of angular deflection to be of significance for passenger discomfort. The group and I had some trouble of figuring out possible solutions within the scope of a passive approach.
I brought up that the reason we are having a difficulty with coming up with a final design that would stop or reduce pitch swinging is because we have limited our designs to passive only. The group and I discussed that a complete revision of the design may be needed. As we were discussing, AJ and the summer half-scale team joined our discussion and mentioned that linear actuator can be used to control the pitch swinging.
So our group then focused our attention on using a linear actuator in the frame of our original design to have control. The linear actuator can be used statically (off) for longitudinal acceleration and used dynamically (on) in cohesion with the gravity effects to pitch-level the pod-car while traversing on the inclines.
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