3.1.7 Machine Control Design

1. Requirements: to design a vehicle that drives in a strait line back and forth to deliver batches of parts. Must travel back and forth based on input from a potentiometer. Must include an emergency shutoff in case the vehicle travels too far in either direction.

Components: Engineering kit tools and pieces

Constraints: must travel back and forth (2 ways); must have an emergency shutoff

2&3. Solutions/Sketches:

4. Final design:

5. Actual Design

Conclusion Questions

1. The most difficult part of the problem was trying to set up the car and the system that moves it. We had trouble getting the car to break on the emergency stops. Instead of stopping on cue, it would keep going and eventually get off the track.

2. Our design worked great, so I don't think there's anything more or less that we would have needed.