Fail Safe Team Introduction

For the Spartan Superway, the Fail Safe team will be focusing on creating fail safe mechanisms with the quarter scale model in mind.  The Fail Safe team consists of the following people: Cassie Acosta, Steven Luong, Vicente Viqueria, Aaron Cheng, Christopher McCormick and Uday Ranjeet.

Scope of Work

Currently, the bogie design has been created to traverse a track with no elevation change with no fail safe mechanisms.  The fail safe team will take on the tasks of redesigning the bogie to be able to make these elevation changes as well as create fail safe mechanisms to keep the bogie and cabin safe.

Goals

This year, the team's goals to complete by Spring 2016 are as follows:

• Re-design the bogie to traverse up and down a guideway sloped at ±17° (30% grade) at TBD m/s
• Design and build a fail safe mechanism by Spring 2016 that prevents the bogie from falling off the tracks.