DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF TROLLEY WITH DUAL MAN POWER CYCLE USING ACKERMAN’S STEERING WHEEL MECHANISM FOR SWAATCH BHARATH

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Our project is to Design and fabricate a trolley, working by two humans with the help of Ackerman steering principle. In our trolley, we use Ackerman’s principle for steering operation. Ackerman’s geometry is a arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle to solve the problem of wheels on the inside or outside of turn needing to trace out circles of different radii. This article focuses on the synthesis of a steering mechanism that exactly meets the requirements of Ackermann steering geometry. It starts from reviewing of the four-bar linkage, then discusses the number of points that a common four-bar linkage could precisely trace at most. Two cycle frames are attached to the chassis of the trolley therby providing a dual pedalling mechanism to power the trolley manually. The fabrication of this trolley can bring about a change in daily life cleaning purpose for garbage cleaners under swatch bharath scheme.

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