An innovative urban bicycle

Abstract

The problem statement of 3D Student Design Challenge by Autodesk was to design an urban bicycle that could serve a certain number of features like a laptop carrier, a lunch box carrier, and a stand, along with a parking mechanism. Other innovations that could improve the performance of the bicycle could be added, as well, to improve the safety of the rider.

Design

Curved OLED Screen
Laptop Carrier
Battery Casing
Lunch Box
DE- Fender
Stand+Lock

Curved OLED Screen

It must be noted that the display is after all a “display”. The question is how to get the maximum utility out of it. Here are some of the many features the display can support.

GPS navigation and on the go Traffic Alerts using Google/Apple/Nokia Here
Video Calling with assistance of your phone voice assistant
Uses the camera of the smart phone.
Uses the hands free speakers and the microphone on its cable/ Bluetooth device
Weather Forecast

DE-Fender

Cycling is a very monotonous process and usually, accidents occur due to the absence of focus on the overtaking vehicles. Every time a cyclist takes a turn he has to turn his/her body all the way to lookout for a vehicle which might be at his/her back; we wish it would have been easier and thus we made use of ultrasonic sensors; they are cheap and can easily detect any vehicle coming from the back, and alert the rider of its approach using the LEDs that are mounted on the handles.

LED are connected to its corresponding ultrasonic sensor
Sensor detects the vehicle in the high vicinity which are potential risks
Sends signal to the circuit
LED blinks and warns the rider

Team, Achievements and My Job

Team:

Karsh Tharyani B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, MNIT, Jaipur (Yours truly :P)

Sumit Tomar B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, MNIT, Jaipur

Ayush Jhalani B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, MNIT Jaipur

The design came third out of the 12 teams in the Regional Round-West (only 48 teams, 12 in each region, were selected out of over 500 initial design submissions) of the competition and went on to participate, competing along side 9 teams in the finals.

The project comprised the work of three mechanical engineers and my job was to work on the code of the Ultrasonic Sensor and the overall design of the Fender or the mud-guard of the cycle. Apart from that I looked into the Ergonomic Study of the cycle for the comfort of the rider. I also worked partially on the body force analysis of the frame.

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