Design and Simulation of Linear Steering

Abstract: This paper describes our first research experience in designing and simulation of a mechanical model or a mechanical system to steer vehicles. As the vehicles is getting more and more autonomous. In this project we created a system or an assembly, The Linear Steering mechanism is designed to steer cars without steering wheels, The project is inspired by Merceries AVTAR vehicle model and aims to develop similar mechanism with concept’s learned by us so far. The project can be divided in 3 major parts, First studying basic steering mechanism, second designing, drawing and making CAD model, And lastly Analysis of Model. The designing was done in AutoCAD and Fussion360. We even performed Multibody Dynamics (MBD) in Inspire to determine and analyse forces on system and further performed Finite Element Analysis to determine Factor of safety.