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Week 4: Research Ideas for Presentation


After hearing feedback from both Dr. Furman, Dan Espinoza and Ron Swenson about the safety of third rail system, the team we decided to change the proposal for fourth rail wayside power pick up.  This variation led me to focus on systems that use a fourth rail wayside electrical pick up.  I have found that the London Underground is a rapid transit system that uses this technique.
                                                                                                                                                                     
                             

Having settled on the system pick up. the next target was to decide what type of mechanism that is simple and efficient we can use for our current collector.
a simple spring damper system was proposed by Donald, I have made a concept design to be implemented as the mechanism to make contact with the current.
This concept idea was used for the first presentation and will be following on this design the following week.

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