Meeting 21
4/1/19 8:00AM-8:55AM Hitchcock 308
Luke, Louie, Nick, Nathan Present
This meeting was the official start of advanced research and development 3. The group decided to research the servo motor, a small motor with has an arm that rotates. The servo motor would serve as a new braking system. Before, the braking system consisted of reversing the propellers to slow the AEV down. Luke and Nick were in charge of researching how the servo worked and what commands needed to be used to work it. Then the group worked together to decide how the servo motor would be connected to the AEV. Zip ties were initially used to clamp the motor to the top of the AEV. After, two test codes were uploaded to the AEV and ran on the track. The first code only consisted of rotating the arm on the servo motor. The second code consisted of running the AEV a small distance and rotating the arm to brake the AEV.
Upcoming: Find a more efficient way to connect the servo to the AEV and implement the servo into the actual performance test code.