Week 6 – 2/22/19

Location: HI 224

Time: 8:00-9:20

Members Present: All

Topics:

• Committee meetings take place
• Create Methodology for division
  • Team P – battery testing, aerodynamics, wire management

Upcoming Tasks

• Prepare for AEV tests

Week 5 – 2/15/19

Location: HI 224

Time: 8:00-9:20

Members Present: All

Topics:

• Choosing roles for Committee meeting
  • Pulkit – Research and Development
  • Bryan – Public Relations
  • Hayden – Research and Development
  • Martin – Human Resource

Upcoming Tasks

• Each team member to prepare for committee meeting next friday – 2/22/19

Week 5 – 2/13/19

Location: HI 224

Time: 3:00-4:00

Members Present: Pulkit, Bryan, Marty, Hayden

Topics

• Modifying design for AEV for efficiency
• Drafting grant proposal – Marty
  • Modifying arduino casing
• Split up progress report
  • Bryan – team meeting notes, backward summary/situation, upcoming goals
  • Marty – schedule
  • Hayden – arduino code, forwards summary/situation, summary results/analysis
  • Pulkit – tables and figures, takeaways

Upcoming Tasks

• Complete grant proposal and progress report – assignments listed above
• Lab 4

Week 5 – 2/12/19

Location: HI 346

Time: 5:30-7:30

Members Present: Bryan, Hayden

Topics

• GTA Nick helped with problem where code would not upload to arduino
• Lab 2 and 3 done
  • Resolved upload error, performed reflectance sensor test
  • Coded AEV movement, tested on track
  • Recorded data and used MATLAB to display data on Excel
  • Graphed data with MATLAB

Upcoming Tasks

• Wednesday meeting will include everyone
• Split up progress report work
• Draft grant proposal video and create it
  • Turn in to Carmen by 5 pm Thursday

Week 4 – 2/8/19

Location: HI 224

Time: 8:00-9:20

Members Present: Pulkit, Bryan, Marty, Hayden

Topics

• Trouble uploading code to arduino for most of lab
  • could not resolve problem
  • will meet with Nick on Tuesday, February 12 at 5:30 in HI 346
• Uploaded most of AEV designs to website
• Arduino upload error unresolved

Upcoming Tasks

• Talk with Nick about upload error and other help

Week 4 – 2/6/19

Location: HI 316

Time: 3:00-4:00

Members Present: Pulkit, Bryan, Marty, Hayden

Topics

• Updated website
  • Updated arduino codes, finalized code from Lab 3 – Marty, Pulkit
  • Removed blog page and replaced with home page – Bryan

Upcoming Tasks

• Work on individual AEV designs to submit to Carmen and showcase on Design tab of website – Everyone
  • Start thinking critically how to make AEV cost efficient and light, based on MCR approach
  • Eventually finish AEV design by picking best design and modifying it
• Run tests on track and collect data with AEV chassis
  • Use data to adjust AEV movement and timed stops

Week 2 -1/23/19

Location: HI 316

Time: 3:00-3:40

Members Present: Pulkit, Bryan, Marty, Hayden

Topics

• Create a Github page for code – Pulkit
• Give box to Hayden to test out AEV code at home – Bryan

Upcoming tasks

• Hayden checking arduino upload ability on computer

• Started familiarization with Github – Everyone
• Get ahead on Lab 3 – Everyone

Week 1 – 1/11/19

Location: HI 224

Time: 8:00-9:20

Members Present: Pulkit, Bryan, Marty, Hayden

Topics

• Created AEV website for teams P and H – Bryan
• Hayden, Pulkit, and Marty downloaded at started coding for the AEV
• Gathered all needed materials stated in instructions
• Everyone gave contact info, started a groupme, created google drive for shared documents
  • for better communication and to input ideas when not in a meeting
• Discussed times to meet outside of class
  • originally on Monday, later changed to Wednesday at around 3 pm

Upcoming tasks

• Download the programs for the AEV on own computer
  • for working on coding outside of class, don’t have to meet at Hitchcock
• Continue instructions to get AEV base working
  • will discuss extra features in later meetings