Keeping the Team Rolling!

After much discussion about wheel designs, what we thought was important in a wheel, and many arguments between wheel designs, our team has finally made progress on the wheels being used on our rover. After taking many designs into consideration, our team has picked the top 3 wheel designs to investigate further. From the initial Analytic Hierarchy Processes, we were able to determine the best designs for our rover. Further analysis will go into optimization of the design and a cost benefit analysis for the wheel designs, however we feel confident that one of the top three designs will be used on the rover.

With only a little bit less than a month until our Design Proposal is due, the team has some major decisions to make within the next few weeks. We do feel confident in our process and the results we have been achieving thus far. This weekend we will have a few mini-projects to create a few rock collection designs and prototypes cut between Sunday and Wednesday. Servos have been purchased and some basic servo coding has been written to take our models and begin to put them into motion! Check in this week to see what kind of prototypes we have come up with.