April’s Meetings

Meeting #13

Date: Tuesday, April 3

Time: 12:40PM – 1:35PM

Members Present: All

Objective:

  • Energy Optimization

To-do:

  • Work on the secondary code, and finalizing primary code for the final performance test.

Decisions:

  • After working on the secondary code for a while, the team decided to scrap the code and use the primary code

Reflections and future work:

  •  After choosing the primary code as the division’s final performance test, the team will finish up the last section and tune it for energy optimization.

Meeting #14

Date: April 6

Time: 12:45PM – 2:05PM

Members Present: All

Objective:

  • Progress Report, AEV tuning

To-do:

  •  Tune the primary code for the AEV

Decisions:

  • Using a single battery per experimental day, the variations between the tests will minimize.

Reflections and future work:

Prepare for the final performance test next week.


Meeting #15

Date: April 10

Time: 12:45PM – 2:05PM

Members Present: All

Objective:

  • Finalize AEV to prepare for the performance test

To-do:

  • Get the AEV to consistently past the gate on the way back and stop without recoil in the entire round trip.

Decisions:

  • The team measured the battery voltage to be 8.41V and tuned the AEV with the code editions, and the final voltage was 8.29V.

Reflections and future work:

  •  The team thinks they have settled with the code and will attempt to perform the AEV Final Performance Test at the next meeting.

Meeting #16

Date: April 11

Time: 12:45PM – 2:05PM

Members Present: All

Objective:

  • Attempt to perform the final performance test.

To-do:

  • Fine tune the AEV in order to prepare for the final test, and conduct the test by the end of the experimentation period.

Decisions:

  • The team will conduct several tests then perform the final performance test. Decisions made are to be determined.

Reflections and future work:

  •  The final performance test is on Lab 12c April 13, reflections are to be determined by the end of the experimentation period.


Meeting #17

Date: April 13

Time: 12:45PM – 2:05PM

Members Present: All

Objective:

  • Finish up performance tests.

To-do:

  • Last day to do performance test, three tries total

Decisions:

  • Final performance testing will be conducted.

Reflections and future work:

  •  The final performance test run 1 was the team’s accepted successful run.
  •  The round trip time of the AEV was 57 seconds, using 163 Joules, with a total cost of $543,636.