Educational training system using mechanical models

A method for teaching mechanical engineering principles, comprising the steps of:

• providing a system executable on one or more readable storage media executed by one or more processors in electronic communication with one or more databases and one or more subsystems, allowing the system to generate one or more designs or run one or more simulations;
• generating a crane design using the system;
• performing a simulation on the crane design to provide simulation results;
• providing a crane model based on the crane design, the crane model comprising:
• a platform,
• a crane boom attached to the platform, and
• a control system;
• testing the crane model under at least one operating load condition;
• monitoring behavior of the crane model during testing to provide one or more performance measurements;
• and
• comparing the simulation results and the performance measurements of the crane design and the crane model;
• wherein
• a remote control is in communication with the control system of the crane model over a wired or wireless communication system to initiate pivotal displacement of the crane boom or rotary displacement of the platform.

A method for teaching mechanical engineering principles, comprising the steps of:

• providing a system executable on one or more readable storage media executed by one or more processors in electronic communication with one or more databases and one or more subsystems, allowing the system to generate one or more designs or run one or more simulations;
• generating a crane design using the system;
• performing a simulation on the crane design to provide simulation results;
• providing a crane model based on the crane design, the crane model comprising:
• a platform including at least one motor-driven drive assembly that facilitates the rotational movement of the platform about a centralized axis of the crane model,
• a crane boom attached to the platform, the crane boom including one or more crane motor assemblies that facilitate rotational and pivoting motion of the crane boom, and
• a control system in communication with the one or more crane motor assemblies of the crane boom and the at least one motor-driven drive assembly of the platform,
• wherein the motor-driven drive assembly of the platform includes one or more receivers designed to receive executable command signals emitted from the control system to control the rotational movement of the platform, and
• wherein the one or more crane motor assemblies of the crane boom include one or more receivers designed to receive executable command signals emitted from the control system to control the rotating and pivoting of the crane boom;
• testing the crane model under at least one operating load condition;
• monitoring behavior of the crane model during testing to provide one or more performance measurements;
• and
• comparing the simulation results and the performance measurements of the crane design and the crane model.

A method for teaching mechanical engineering principles, comprising the steps of:

• providing a system executable on one or more readable storage media executed by one or more processors in electronic communication with one or more databases and one or more subsystems, allowing the system to generate one or more designs or run one or more simulations;
• generating a crane design using the system;
• performing a simulation on the crane design to provide simulation results;
• providing a crane model based on the crane design, the crane model comprising a crane boom, a control system, and a platform, wherein the crane boom includes one or more crane motor assemblies that facilitate rotational and pivoting motion of the crane boom;
• testing the crane model under at least one operating load condition;
• monitoring behavior of the crane model during testing to provide one or more performance measurements;
• and
• comparing the simulation results and the performance measurements of the crane design and the crane model.