As its name signifies in itself, monorails are trains that run on a single track. I thought of discussing with you because recently in Mumbai, India. The government decided to use it for public transportation. Though this technology is not new I got excited to discuss the possibilities it brings when we think about the elevated monorail. This is going to be very helpful because they will need less space and can be used in the middle of the road i.e divider.
If you consider monorail as one of your projects, that the best thing is that you can power your engine using any source you would like to use. For example electric engines, diesel engines or solar-powered dc motors, etc. These trains are commercially used in Japan and they are very successful too. Moreover, technology adapted in maglev trains has also come from these trains. To build a monorail project either elevated or on the ground, you need to found how you can innovate it in such a way that it brings something new within your work. In my opinion, as a student, you will find ground trains are easier to build but before jumping to any conclusion, I would like you to do a lot of research and find each and every minute detail about how you can build this for yourself. I have shared a couple of links below and I hope you will find many of them useful.
As far as the student project is concerned, the monorail has a lot of potentials as shown by the Students of Australia as they used monorail for their final year project. The best thing they did is to use other components with this train to make their project stand out from other student's work.
Their train not only follows the line as line following robot but it is smart enough to stop at various stations.
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