Lift Team- Rack and Pinion Gear System Design

Summary: Gear design for Lift Team.

We developed solidworks models to provide a clearer demonstration of the initial sketches:

A crude initial served as the starting point:

We were then able to model out:

We simplified these sketches by using a cylinders instead of gears and not adding teeth to the rack yet, this can be updated later. We also still need to add a middle section with the motors and gears to turn the shafts. These files are on the Google Drive.

In order to hold the two layers together we had some ideas about a bracket that could have a bolt running through the entire body of the robot.