Two day workshop on Human Powered Vehicle (HPV)

A two day workshop on Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) was conducted on 27^th April and 4^th May ,2019, by the team SATVAN, from Federal Institute Of Science And Technology. The workshop provided an overview about the HPV competition conducted by ASME during their three day long e-fest. It also provided the participants with key information on topics ranging from basic designing of a HPV to testing and analysis of its various parts.

    The first session of the workshop was conducted 0n 27^th April 2019.The session was started on 10.00 AM by Mr. Krishna Prakash who led Team SATVAN for the last three years during the competition. On the first day the team shared their experiences, the challenges they faced , how they overcame it and the basic outlay of the competition and a human powered vehicle. The experiences that the team shared filled the students with a lot of inspiration. A small session was conducted familiarizing the race events – ‘Endurance and Drag race’. The rules regarding the same were discussed and requirements were specified during the session on the first day of workshop. The first session of the workshop was wound up by 4.00 PM.

 The second session was conducted on 4^th May 2019 .The second session also started at 10.00 AM. The second session mainly dealt with the working and analysis of a HPV and its basic parts, which mainly included steering, brakes, transmission and gears. Various types of these mechanisms which are used in different types of HPV’s were familiarized.   The team brought the HPV that they built, named SATVAN 3.O for the competition on the year 2018 on VIT, Vellore. The team bagged third prize for the competition. Hands on session was conducted on this HPV, which provided a great experience on chains, sprocket, gears , hub and bearings. A session on analysis using ANSYS was also conducted during the second day. The workshop was wound up by 4.00 PM.

The workshop was very much useful to us in understanding the key principles of the competition and the basic outline of the vehicle ranging from design and analysis to on the road testing of the vehicle. The three year experience of the Team SATVAN was very much inspiring. A group of 25 students attended both sessions of the workshop.

The workshop was organized by student team consisting of Antony Alex, Ebin Babu, Anish Rajesh and was sponsored by Institution of Engineers (IE).

 Team SATVAN with their HPV

                                                 Hands on session on various parts