2016-10-02 Meeting notes

•  Will be changed for next week

• How to move forward:
  • Next thing we should think about: driving dimensions (wheelbase, track, position of driver in relation to wheels, etc.), ergonomic analysis

• Things valued highly about the designs:
  • Devon: 1: Aesthetics, 2: well defined curves, not blob shaped, 3: Door, need to really think about the design of the practicality of the door
  • Matt: 1. Manufacturability, 2: Door, 3: Aerodynamics
  • Angela: 1. Manufacturability, 2: Flat panel design, 3: Aerodynamics
  • Edward: 1. Manufacturability, 2: Aerodynamics, 3: Aesthetics
  • Ritu: 1. Aesthetics: curved (seamless transitions with hood, to back), 2: Manufacturability, making it ergonomic design, 3: aerodynamics
  • Minghao: 1. Biased towards his own design because of manufacturability, aesthetics less important, 2: would really like if it can look like a real car on the road (more conservative designs)

Things to note:

• Sharp corners may not be best aerodynamically
• Spaceframe + panel decision may allow for curved vehicles to be made more successfully
• Ability to manufacture curved panels in terms of composites:
  • Anything apart from perfectly flat would need a mould
  • Need to make fibre glass mould from foam mould
  • Avoid teardrop tail of MSXI (sharp corner) to improve manufacturability

Decisions:

• Combine Devon and Minghao's designs
• Flat side of vehicle
• Keep sporty look
• Avoid large curves, keep car as flat as possible
• Want the design process to move faster
• Matt to go ahead with CAD with the elements discussed today (basing off of Minghao's), by tuesday
• Devon to come up with more sketches, by tuesday
• Edward will read more into aerodynamics

Decisions:

• Mild steel to give us flexibility
• Professionally weld the major joints
• To move into design:
  • Need mounting points
  • Where the suspension is going
• To do: 
  • Research into chassis design
  • Angela and Matt to sit down on Thursday to go over design

• Suggestion: look into simulink
• Storing the source code of Devon's simulation: Git
• Next steps:
  • Research into what to optimize suspension and steering to do
  • Devon will continue working with simulators and isolate key criteria
    • Will try to have key dimensions by end of week

• Brake pedal
• Steering wheel
• Accelerator pedal
• Driver control & driver interface
• Layup practise
• Door handles
• Should be looking at ways for first years to help us meet our goals for MSXII
• Think about isolated parts
• Also think about integrating new members to the larger systems
• Devon to have 3-4 specific tasks (background, instructions, criteria, constraints) to be presented to first years at Thursday meeting
• Go towards mentorship model
• Maybe good project?: standardize and design good linkage between composites and spaceframe
  • ideally some sort of quick disconnect to be able to get underneath
  • vision: can strip all of panels from car and get a bare frame to work with
  • Can be a good mentorship project
  • **Review regulations in terms of this vision

• Gantt Chart
• Next steps:
  • All teams to flesh out Gantt chart, get hard deadlines on paper (in the excelsheet)