Challenges that our team is going to face in the coming week
will be creating a model of our dynamic pulley-string-generator system and then
solving it to find the optimum values that would maximize efficiency. Setting
up an optimizer in Excel will also require a strong set of analytical skills,
since nobody on the team has much experience with optimization tools. With Gate
Review 3 over our shoulders, staying on track time-wise is going to be
difficult due to the solid effort the team needs to put into the design in the
mean-time. Updating the Gantt chart will help gauge how we are managing our
time, but that is another task in itself. Selecting a drivetrain that can transmit
the power from the pulley in a compact/efficient package is a challenge because
we cannot drive the DC motor with a worm gear on the shaft as originally
thought, and requires more volume.
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