At
the beginning of this semester, vehicle position sensing will focus
on manufacturing the corrugated metal strip. Due to the limitation of the budget,
we have to give up our original idea which was using 3D printer to make the
strip. Instead of that, we will try to make it by our own.
In
this week, in order to manufacturing the corrugated metal strip, we talked to
the track manufacturing team. They do not have time to help us about it, but
they gave us some useful suggestion. For example, we are going to make to gears
for manufacturing the strip. They told us some their experience how to make a
perfect gear.
So
far, we already made two perfect cylinder. Also, we plan to finished the gear
teeth and install them to a platform in the following week. The team is looking
for steel sheet supplier which can provide us cheap and thin iron sheet.
Because there will be no load acting on the corrugated metal strip, the
properties of the metal does not matter as long as it can be easily corrugated.
In the moment, we are looking for steel sheet with gage 28 or 30.
The
program of the corrugated detection was finished. However, we still need to
integrate our part with the vehicle control team because our programs share
location information together.
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