Week 4

For the week of September 14 - September 21 I did some research on some active suspension articles that I was able to obtain through the Martin Luther King Jr. Library web page. I wanted to look at professional articles to see how they approach designing an active suspension. Even though these articles are for four wheel vehicles, I can still take some of their ideas and apply it to the active suspension of the pod car. Most of these articles displayed there controls schematic on how they plan to utilize the active suspension and along with all of their calculations. One interesting concept I got from these articles is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 shows how everything is applied and it seems like it is working perfectly fine for them. So if I can some how take some parts such as their suspension system setup and be able to apply it to the pod car of the spartan super way, then our design process can go a lot smoother.

The links for the articles:
-http://discover.sjlibrary.org:50080/ebsco-w-b/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=71d2a00f-c7d9-4791-8709-f33db669ad47%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=128
-http://discover.sjlibrary.org:50080/ebsco-w-a/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=27063e12-71b6-42a2-bed3-b1a59116031f%40sessionmgr4009&vid=1&hid=4201
-http://discover.sjlibrary.org:50080/ebsco-w-b/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=2528cf4d-cbe1-42e3-ad32-6e2122b30bf9%40sessionmgr101&vid=1&hid=128