Week 4: Drafting Designs

Our group has come up with three different design iterations for the half-scale suspension system. Colin and I included active suspension systems with hopes for dampening to be involved somewhere in the system. Salvador has brought forth a new and innovative design that levels out the cabin passively instead of actively. We believe that if Salvador's design works, it will be much less complex and easier to achieve in terms of our end goals. We have spoken with Dr. Furman and Eric and they have granted us permission to use the 2016 Active Suspension Team's dampening system, which we hope to incorporate in Salvador's design. Our team will begin to rapid prototyping Salvador's design to assure that there are no flaws. Below is a sketch of Salvador and I's design iterations.

Figure 1: My active suspension design iteration

Figure 2: Salvador's passive suspension design iteration