Project Overview
Our design philosophy is to build a KERS flywheel energy storage unit as a proof of concept, which hopefully be optimized by ourselves and others in the future. The reason why a system like this is feasible is that globally, roads have many impediments such as intersections, cars and turns which prevents a cyclist from maintaining a constant speed. This system will help with recovering the lost energy from braking caused by these impediments.
Project Objectives
- Identifying the potential of KERS for bicycle.
- Summarizing key technologies used for recovering kinetic energy.
- Optimizing the existing design for KERS and purposing a new design.
- Testing the newly designed KERS for bicycle under different conditions.
- Identifying the external and internal parameters that have increased or decreased the efficiency of KERS.
- Citing the limitations of the purposed design and suggesting future work for the KERS design.
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