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Our normal Superway time, was shorten due to the presentation made in the engineering building. Wr discussed about the inductive charging and how we decided that it was better to go with last year battery, for power reasons. The team would just need to finalize on which inductive charger receiver to use.

During week 7, our focus was on pod car communication. We wanted to talk about the different ways the pod car could communicate between each other and communicate position back to the our tablet. We discuss about having either an encoder or a GPS system. The GPS system was appealing, but a problem was that it was not scalable. Professor Furman pointed out that the signal connection might not be good with the gps system. Therefore, with are did more research on it. The other option was using an motor encoder to keep track of position and go from there. We realized if we knew the position of each pod car, it would improve our capacity of avoiding collisions.

Today the 1/12 scale control team improved on the design specifications of the projects. The goal today was to select, specific brushless motors to be used for actuation. The selected motor was brushless Motor 2208 80KV for 2-axis BGC camera Gimbal at 7.99$ apiece. We also started the bill of material for the control team. On top of that we talked to the track on the design and path of the track and about the exact location of the charging station. We went over the inductive charging method and how long we wanted a pod car to charge before leaving the charging station and going back to the normal path. Finally, we tried to go online and look for the best charging method for the inductive charger and how to amplify the charging current so that we can charge our pod cars faster and have all the cars up running in no time. This Wednesday session was a collaborative session with other teams and we will use the week to do more research on the design specifications and start writing code.