Conclusion

A Real Success

he California High-Speed Rail Delivery Service project has proven to be quite difficult. We were challenged with not only creating a motorized vehicle that could ride along a track, but also with figuring out how to deliver a “package” to each station. This entailed learning how to make the vehicle sense each station and drop a ball inside. Our team was required to figure out how to design this vehicle and program an Arduino Uno Microcontroller and the required sensors. We decided to use a mechanical delivery system, controller by a servo, which would activate when a color sensor sensed one of the ramps. After assembly and testing of our delivery system, our next challenge was to keep driving straight on the track. As opposed to adding extra wheels to keep it straight, we added a bumper system to push the vehicle against the walls of the track and keep it centered.