At the end of this project, we managed to come up with a feasible design for a motorcycle simulator using the Honda C70 as the simulated motorcycle. We went through appropriate design steps such as concept brainstorming, the creation of a morphological chart, concept combination selection and design evaluation as well as design improvement.
The use of the SolidWorks software has helped us tremendously in detailing our design. We also used CosmosWorks on the models and analysed it using static analysis on the first two drafts. For the final draft, we also used fatigue analysis to analyse the model since it is has passed the static analysis.
Besides that, there were several changes in our initial plan design. In our initial planned design, we started off with only 3 degree of freedom; roll, pitch and steer. About mid semester, we found out that we did not include a vital degree of freedom which was the yaw motion. Also, after several literature review, we found out that steer isn’t exactly a degree of freedom. So in our end-design, we came up with a total of 4 degrees of freedom which are roll, pitch, steer and yaw.
We also browsed through several catalogues regarding servomotors, linear actuators, couplings and etc. and managed to select all the appropriate parts for use in our motorcycle simulator. The knowledge or static, dynamics and component design are systematically used in our selection. Unfortunately, the proposed total spent on this motorcycle simulator is a tad over the budget given. We also did not manage to build an actual working simulator or even came up with a prototype as we intended due to time constraints.
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