Meetings

Meeting #1: Wednesday 1/10/18 at 2:20pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Introductions to one another
  • Setup website/team picture
  • Introduction to isometric drawings

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Activity 1 and Application 1
  • Website notes

Meeting #2: Friday 1/12/18 at 1:50pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Worked on Activity 1 and Application 1

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Activity 2 and Application 2
  • Pictures on website

Meeting #3: Tuesday 1/16/18 at 1:50pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Discussed strengths and weaknesses
    • Grant: coding
    • Rayna: writing
    • Jake: SolidWorks
    • Mary: time management/leadership
  • Worked on Activity 2 and Application 2

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Lab 02

Meeting #4: Wednesday 1/17/18 at 2:20pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Began Preliminary R&D Lab
    • Mary and Grant coded
    • Rayna and Jake built the ARV
  • Set up AEV software and became familiar with AEV hardware components
  • Began but did not complete Programming Basics Exercise – Scenario 1
  • Mary wrote code for Lab 2 (Reflectance Sensors Test)

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Finish Labs 1 and 2 and start working on Creative Design Thinking Lab

Meeting #5: Tuesday 1/23/18 at 1:50pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Learn about orthographic drawings
  • Apply orthographic drawing concepts to Creative Design Thinking Lab

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Application 4 and Activity 4
  • Lab 03

Meeting #6: Wednesday 1/24/18 at 2:20pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Finish Lab 1
    • Mary and Grant coded
    • Jake and Rayna conducted testing and construction of AEV
  • Work on Lab 2 and discuss design concepts of our AEV
    • Jake’s idea for grant proposal: AEV base that is just one part to eliminate any extra screws or ties
  • Set up Design Analysis Tool

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Finish testing for Lab 2 and complete Lab 4
  • Start work on Lab 5

Meeting #7: Friday 1/26/18 at 1:50pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • Work with orthographic drawings on SolidWorks
  • Continue discussing AEV design ideas

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Application 5 and Activity 5

Meeting #8: Tuesday 1/30/18 at 1:50pm in Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  •  Learned about revolving shapes about an axis
  • Discussed and assigned tasks in order to complete website update #2
    • Rayna – meeting notes and editing
    • Mary – description of code for labs
    • Grant – graph and data upload/analysis
    • Jake – looking forward

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Application 6 and Activity 6
  • Lab 04

Meeting #9: Saturday 2/3/18 at 12pm at SEL

All members attended

  • Finalizing design for AEV (Lab 03)
    • Grant: hand drawn design
    • Rayna: meeting notes/progress report
    • Mary: concept scores
    • Jake: constructing AEV
  • Working on Progress Report 1
  • Concept scoring for designs (Lab 05)
  • Advanced R&D Lab: Energy Analysis

Upcoming tasks:

  • Website Update #3
  • Finish Progress Report 1
    • Jake: upload AEV design and describe how the team picked this design/how the team built the AEV previously
    • Grant: discuss the differences between graphs and how the team will use that looking forward to maximize energy, reflectance sensors
    • Mary: discuss coding process and upload codes, concept screening and scoring matrices
    • Rayna: team meeting notes, schedule, upcoming goals
  • Application 07 (individual)

Meeting #11: Monday 2/12/18 at 7:30pm in Park Strad

All members attended

  • Designed and created proposal for part in SolidWorks
    • Jake – SolidWorks design
    • Grant – oral presentation
    • Mary – description of part
    • Rayna – description of part
  • Practiced presentation for grant proposal

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Committee Meeting #1
    • Grant – public relations
    • Rayna – human resources
    • Mary – research and development
    • Jake – research and development

Meeting #12: Wednesday 2/21/18 at 2:20pm in Hitchcock Hall

Mary, Jake, and Grant were present. Rayna was sick with the flu and notified her team members.

  • Ran the motor quantity test
    • Grant coded the program
    • Jake attached the motors and fixed the reflectance sensors
    • Mary took notes and produced graph results
  • After looking at the data, all team members decided to move forward with two motors on the AEV

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Oral Presentation
  • Website Update #3
    • Rayna edits meeting notes and discusses errors in the energy analysis
    • Grant uploads the graphs and discusses findings from them
    • Mary discusses errors in the motor quantity testing and how to use this information moving forward
    • Jake uploads images of the AEV and discusses the findings from the motor analysis
  • Progress Report Re-do
    • Rayna edits schedule and meeting notes
    • Jake writes the looking backwards situation paragraph
    • Mary writes the looking backwards takeaways paragraph
    • Grant edits the format of the document and edits wording/phrasing

Meeting #13: Sunday 2/25/18 at 4:00pm at Thompson

All members attended

  • fixed progress report
    • Jake – looking backwards situation
    • Mary – looking backwards takeaways
    • Grant – formatting/editing
    • Rayna – appendix
  • website update #3
    • Rayna – meeting notes, deliverable questions
    • Grant – data upload and analysis
    • Jake – images upload and description of what was done
    • Mary – deliverable questions, upload code
  • worked on oral presentation
    • Jake and Mary – Problem, Definition, and Plan
    • Grant – data analysis
    • Rayna – conclusion

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Oral Presentation
    • Grant – introduction/problem/approach
    • Mary – energy analysis findings
    • Jake – motor quantity test findings
    • Rayna – energy analysis and motor quantity test takeaway
  • Performance test next week
    • need to finalize any changes to the AEV still

Meeting #14: Monday 3/5/18 at 6:00pm in Study Room 013 in Smith-Steeb Hall

All members attended

  • Progress report #2 was completed
    • Jake worked on the forward-looking summary’s situation as well as its takeaways
    • Grant created the graphs and discussed the results and conclusions from them
    • Mary wrote the backward-looking summary’s situation
    • Rayna addressed the meeting notes, schedule, and weekly goals
  • Discussion for the first performance test took place. It was Jake’s idea to use a lower propeller position for the second design for the performance test. Roles were assigned: Mary will code, Grant will upload the data analysis, Rayna will be recorder and timekeeper, and Jake will be in charge of constructing the AEV.

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Performance Test #1

Meeting #15: Wednesday 3/7/18 at 2:20pm in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • The final two designs for the AEV were tested
    • Grant suggested using one motor for the first design and two motors for the second design
    • Jake constructed and deconstructed the AEV assembly
    • Mary and Rayna adjusted the code for one motor versus two motors

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Performance Test #1
    • Jake is head of assembly of the AEV
    • Mary is head of coding
    • Grant will collect data from each run
    • Rayna will record the results form each run

Meeting #16: Tuesday 3/20/18 at 1:50pm in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall

All members attended

  • AEV was tested using Absolute Reference coding
    • Mary typed the code
    • Jake assembled the AEV
    • Grant and Rayna recorded data and mark error of the AEV
  • AEV successfully stopped within the gate

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Performance Test #1 must be completed

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Wednesday 3/21 at 2:20pm

All members in attendance.

  • AEV passed performance Test #1
    • It was Mary’s idea to switch to the GoFor command instead of AbsoluteReference since the reflectance sensors were not consistent throughout each trial
    • Jake adjusted the wires of the AEV so they would not bump the track when in motion •

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Performance Test #2
    • The AEV must now connect with the caboose and begin heading back up the hill
    • The team needs to test how long the AEV should be set to GoFor so that it has enough power to get down the hill and connect with the caboose but not too much power so that it disrupts the caboose
  • Committee Meeting #2

Meeting in Room 308 of Hitchcock Hall on Friday 3/23 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance.

  • The timing for the AEV to reach the top of the hill and coast down was recorded by Rayna and Grant
  • Mary adjusted the time used for the GoFor command for each trial in the code
  • Jake was in charge of beginning each run of the AEV

Upcoming tasks:

  • Performance Test #2
  • Committee Meeting #2 next week

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Tuesday 3/27 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance.

  • The AEV experienced issues with the motor – only one would work and when the wires switched ports, the motor that did not work switched.
    • Jake and Grant split the wire connecting one of the wires that fell out
    • A TA helped replace a motor chip on the Arduino board
  • The AEV was able to run on the track again at the end of the class period

Upcoming tasks:

  • Performance Test #2
    • Timing of the AEV with the new motor chip so that it stops within the gate
    • Timing of the AEV with the new motor chip so it connects with the caboose safely
  • Committee Meeting #2

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Wednesday 3/28 at 2:20pm

All members in attendance.

  • A similar issue with only one motor working but this time only in the reverse direction •
  • Committee Meeting #2 took place
    • Jake and Mary were head of R&D
    • Grant was public relations
    • Rayna was human relations •
  • The AEV passed Performance Test #2 with minimal point deductions
    • Needed to stop the AEV at the gate
    • Ran out of time to get the timing of the AEV correctly

Upcoming tasks:

  • Final performance test next week
  • Timing of the AEV within the gate

Meeting in Room 308 of Hitchcock Hall on Friday 3/30 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance.

  • The AEV was working again, but the times for the GoFor command needed adjusting/recalibrated.
    • Mary was head of coding and making these adjustments
    • Jake placed the AEV on the track during the runs
    • Rayna timed the AEV with a stopwatch and caught AEV at the caboose
    • Grant caught the AEV at the end of the gate

Upcoming tasks

  • Final performance test
    • Need to develop a code for bringing the caboose back
  • Final oral presentation in two weeks

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Tuesday 4/3 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance.

  • The AEV had no issues with the motor again, but testing for the time needed in the GoFor command was still needed
    • Mary was head of coding and making these adjustments
    • Jake placed the AEV on the track during the runs
    • Rayna timed the AEV with a stopwatch
    • Grant caught the AEV at the end of the track
    • All members observed the runs and suggested different times for the GoFor command
  • The timing of the AEV varied in the different rooms – Rayna suggested to keep the set of two codes for each room
  • Data analysis of the runs was recorded by Grant

Upcoming tasks:

  • Final performance test
    • Need timing of the AEV going up the hill to stop in the gate in both directions
  • Final oral presentation draft due the following week

Meeting in Room 308 of Hitchcock Hall on Friday 4/6 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance.

  • Developed code for Room 308
    • Mary was in charge of code
    • Grant uploaded data from each run
    • Rayna and Jake ran the AEV on the track and made suggestions for the time used in the GoFor command
  • AEV still couldn’t stop within the gate on the first hill, but the AEV stopped within the gate going back up the hill in the reverse direction

Upcoming tasks:

  • Final performance test due next week
  • Minimize cost of the AEV
  • Minimize the cost of each run
    • Decrease Joules used
    • Decrease time

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Tuesday 4/10 at 1:50pm

All members in attendance

  • The AEV completed the final performance test trial runs successfully with the exception of stopping between the sensors of the first gate
  • Code was improved by implementing power braking at the end of the downhill coming back with the caboose
    • Mary suggested we sue power braking since the momentum of the AEV and the caboose will cause it to travel too far or violate safety code
  • Timing of the AEV in the gate was worked on
    • AEV was not being consistent
    • Would stop between sensors for a few runs then undershoot it

Upcoming tasks:

  • Final performance test due Friday 4/13
    • Improve code so AEV stops between gate
    • Need three runs (or two if good enough)
  • Final oral presentation on 4/18

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Wednesday 4/11 at 2:20pm

All members attended.

  • Tried to time the AEV so it would stop on its own in the gate
  • Two successful runs of the final performance test were done
    • Needed to stop the AEV manually for both gates
    • two point deduction for both
  • Reflectance sensors were taken off to lower cost
    • Rayna calculated cost
    • Jake reconstructed the AEV without the sensors
  • Grant collected data from the runs to allow Rayna to calculate how much the energy cost was
  • Mary adjusted code to get the AEV to stop in the gate but it was being inconsistent — decided we should get the AEV up the hill fast then stop manually

Upcoming Tasks:

  • One last run for the final performance test
  • Final oral presentation
  • CDR
  • Final website update

Meeting in Room 308 of Hitchcock Hall on Friday 4/13 at 1:50pm

All members attended.

  • The group tried to minimize cost by minimizing time
    • Jake timed the AEV
    • Rayna calculated energy costs
  • The group tried to minimize cost by decreasing energy
    • Grant uploaded data
    • Rayna calculated energy costs
  • Third run of the final performance test was run
    • Needed to manually stop the AEV between both gates
    • Faster trial than the other two with the same amount of energy used
  • Earned a 91% overall for the final performance test

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Final oral presentation on Wednesday 4/18
  • CDR due Friday 4/20
  • Final website update due Friday 4/20

Meeting in Thompson Library on Sunday 4/15 at 6:0pm

All members attended.

  • CDR draft was looked at
    • Need to improve discussion
    • Need to improve results
    • Fix formatting of document and appendix
  • Final CDR was split up
    • Grant will do the formatting and the results
    • Mary, Rayna, and Jake will split up the discussion
    • Rayna will fix appendix
  • Final website update was split up
    • Rayna will update meeting notes
    • Grant will upload graphs and tables for the results of the performance tests
    • Mary will describe what happened in the performance tests
    • Jake will discuss the final design of the AEV as well as upload pictures

Upcoming tasks:

  • Turn in AEV kit on Tuesday
  • Final Oral Presentation on Wednesday
  • CDR due Friday
  • Final website due Friday

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Tuesday 4/17 at 1:50pm

All members attended.

  • Oral presentation draft was looked at
    • Shorter sentences
    • More data
  • Final oral presentation was completed
    • New pictures of the AEV designs were uploaded by Jake
    • Timing of presentation
  • Parts of the presentation were divided among members
    • Jake – introduction and approach
    • Mary – two designs going into the performance tests
    • Rayna – performance tests #1 and #2 results and final design
    • Grant – final performance test and costs

Upcoming Tasks:

  • Final oral presentation Wednesday
    • Business casual dress
  • CDR due Friday
  • Final website update due Friday

Meeting in Room 224 of Hitchcock Hall on Wednesday 4/18 at 2:20pm

All members in attendance.

  • Final oral presentation was completed (97/100)
  • Other groups presented their results form the performance tests
  • Potential errors were discusses between groups

Upcoming tasks:

  • Final website update
    • Meeting minutes updated (Rayna)
    • Data from tests uploaded (Grant)
    • Performance tests discussion (Mary)
    • Images and discussion of final design (Jake)
  • CDR
    • Revise discussion
    • Add more results
    • Format appendix and overall report