I have been providing technical assistance to each team of any questions that they have during the weeks. I have also been speaking with Mr. Swenson and Professor Furman on improving design concepts that each team can incorporate into their current designs for improvement. The warehouse has been on the positive path of improvement in organization and cleanliness since the ISE held their 5S presentation. Each team was assigned a different area within the warehouse to organize and clean which will continue throughout the summer.
Cross-team communication was deemed an issue in previous semesters, so this summer I have been emphasizing the importance of this issue, and have assigned the ISE team to help keep communication across teams active so that no harmful interference occurs later in the summer when the integration of sub teams is crucial.
The bogie team has been a particular team for me to focus on because of the lack of members they currently consist of. The bogie consist of the mechanical bogie, suspension, braking, propulsion, and steering which consumes a lot of energy and minds to solve the issue of creating a new and improved vehicle transport system. I have been communicating with this team on potential ways to approach certain issues, such as braking and propulsion. An idea for the braking would be to fix two disc brake calipers to the bogie in such a way that these calipers could stop the vehicle by touching the guideway. An actuator would have to be programmed to automate this system.
I personally have been waiting for the hall effect sensors and neodenium magnets to arrive in the mail so I can begin testing how this sensor will work in tracking the small scale vehicle. I am looking forward to solving this issue as tracking the vehicles is very important in case they break down, or other issues arise.
Next week the international students will be on vacation from Tuesday to Friday, so I will be working on the tracking system during this time.
Sincerely,
Eric Hagstrom
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