Schmidgall'sEngineeringClubProject


 * Glenbrook South Engineering Club**

6 - 8 students began a project during the 2009 school year to create an electric car from scratch in order to compete in the Square One Innovative Vehicle Design Competition held in October of 2010. The challenge had many safety requirements but the overall design had only 3 main constraints:

1. 24 volt battery source. 2. Fit inside a 4 ft by 9 ft footprint. 3. 3 or 4 wheels on the ground at all times.

The innovations the group decided on were: 1. joystick shown in the bottom left picture controlling the steering motor shown in the bottom right picture.
 * [[image:IVDJoystick.jpg width="320" height="240"]] || [[image:IVDSteeringMotor.jpg width="320" height="240" align="center"]] ||
 * [[image:IVDJoystick.jpg width="320" height="240"]] || [[image:IVDSteeringMotor.jpg width="320" height="240" align="center"]] ||

2. hub motor propulsion in the bottom right picture actuated by the foot pedal in the bottom left picture.
 * [[image:IVDFootPedal.jpg width="320" height="240"]] || [[image:IVDHubmotor.jpg width="320" height="240" align="center"]] ||

3. leaning into turns; actuators below left and control below right
 * [[image:TiltActuators.jpg width="400" height="300"]] || [[image:IVDPLC.jpg width="400" height="300"]] ||

4. GPS monitoring



5. Harvest vertical motion and convert to linear motion with the piezoelectric module at far right in the picture below.



The car being driven at the competition in Detroit.media type="youtube" key="EzoMKjBOz0g" height="390" width="640"