2021-09-30 Meeting Minutes - Drivetrain
4 Days until Sourcing Conclusion!!
18 Days until First Draft CAD Due!!!
Goals
- Review prototyping data & research to determine how to proceed for our final design
Discussion
- CF tubes thoughts
- Consider skinny chassis with more mounting → get more info first
- Compare CF suspension VS aluminum body → will our suspension be too heavy?
- Differential bar VS differential gearbox decision
- Continue with bar
- Keep in mind for stiffness we want a low CoG, the distance between mounting points
- Discuss methods of increasing the suspension's stability and its alignment to the rest of the rover
- Review motor options
- Nanotechs, prefer shorter length
- Review motor layout
- Proceed with motor integration into wheels?
Combined bogie motors? 6 motors → 4 motors
- Review wheel layout?
- Reference prototype geometry in terms of layout
Additional Tasks
- Old rover diassembly
- Read documentation and analysis papers of rocker-bogie projects
- Emily
- Carbon fibre bonding, figure out tolerance and prototyping
- Asha
- Learn FEA
- Learn SolidWorks simulation?
- Investigate and prototype tread styles
- Continue custom wheel research
Update & Action Items
EVERYONE update SolidWorks licenses!
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Emily Adam (Differential bar) |
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Former user (Deleted) (Wheel connections) |
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Former user (Deleted) (Chassis) |
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Former user (Deleted) (Frame/structure) | ||
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