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Testing
Outside of the ASME RC Baja competition in the spring, the rc car will undergo additional testing from the group members. The drive train testing will consist of a top speed test, incline test, and rear workability test.
The top speed test will be preformed by mounting a Go Pro camera to the the chassis of the RC car and make attempts at a final final top, the recorded speed will come from the onboard GPS unit on the camera and speed will be reported after testing.
The incline testing will be preformed by placing a sheet of plywood un against stairs to achieve the desired angle and reporting on the success of the cars ability to scale the incline.
The rear workability test will be swapping the rear drive assembly in under ten minutes as a way to test the ease of repairing the RC in simulated competition environments.
The incline testing portion saw a redesign of the existing reduction gearbox. The fix led to the redesign lead to the current design.
Figure 1 : Pic showing all the preform equipment to preform the testing.
The first test to be conducted was the design for assembly test. The was done to evaluate the design requirement of being able to swap the rear axle sub assembly in under ten minutes. The test was successful in accomplishing this requirement.
The testing can be seen in figure 1 and 2.
Figure 2 : A snapshot of the testing process
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Figure 3: incline testing set up
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Figure 4 : Incline testing pt. 2
These three figure depict the incline testing figure 3 show the test set, figure 4 shows the test set up further. and figure 5 is the car at the top of the ramp.
Figure 5 : Incline testing pt. 3
The video (left) is the complete video for one trial of assembly test.
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