Week 8 (10/12 - 10/19)

For the week of October 12 to October 19, we are in the process of figuring out how to combine each system. See pictures below for sketches of what we plan to do.

 Figure 1: Sketch of tilt mechanism

Figure 1 is a rough sketch of the four bar mechanism we want to use based on previous CAD work. 

 Figure 2: How we plan to attach tilt mechanism to bogie

Figure 2 is a possible configuration to support the tilt mechanism and the self-leveling mechanism. The idea in this sketch was to support the tilt mechanism rigidly and then support the self-leveling mechanism at 4 points. The self-leveling mechanism is a square so we would make 4 tilt mechanisms that would connect at each corner.

Figure 3: How we plan to attach tilt mechanism to the self-leveling system

Figure 3 shows this idea with one tilt mechanism connected at one corner.