Committee Meeting Minutes 1 – Teams H, P, R
HR:
Time/ Location: 2/14/2018 Hitchcock
Action Items Before Meeting 1:
- Bring Team Meeting Minutes/Schedule
- Bring Team Working Agreement
Agenda:
- Time Management and Planning
- H – Communicating well, time in lab takes more than expected
- P – Finishing early with deliverables but not lab. Make sure kit is to class on time.
- R– Problems at the beginning but caught up.
- Team Roles
- H – All participating in documentation and then they all are assigned to check another teammates work.
- P – Delegating well, finished before Due Date
- R– Designated roles accordingly
- Team Interaction
- H – Communication during lab can be improved so everyone is productive. Have talked about this and starting to work on it.
- P – No conflicts/disagreements
- R– No conflicts and have specific mention of how to deal with them in team working agreement.
Action Items for Meeting 2
- All – Bring Team Meeting Minutes/Schedule
- All – Consider trying the plan of Team H to assign a part of documentation and also assign a section to look over. Extra accountability measure.
PR:
Audience- companies of Easton and Polaris, customers that will be riding the vehicle
Needs of customers- safe transportation, affordable to use and install, energy efficient, no pollution or any other harm/danger to the surrounding areas, logistics all worked out (time, cost, where it runs, etc)
Plan- safe design (people can’t fall out, no parts are falling off the vehicle, etc), use as little energy as possible, aerodynamic (will be with our proposed part), little maintenance incorporated into the design
R&D:
Progress report 1 final-25snflr
Problem 1: Fragile Wires
The wires connecting into the Arduino are fragile and have disconnected from the board two times over the span of five weeks. The cause of the wires disconnecting are unknown. Our team isn’t aware as to what is causing the wires to disconnect.
Our team would like to research different ways we can protect the wire connections into the Arduino, either using the existing body of the AEV to shield the connection ports or creating small parts to encase the ports at little to no cost.
As the weeks progress with the lab, the team will try a different way of encasing each week during the labs, or evaluate it during team meetings.
Problem 2: Battery Stability/Energy
The voltage of the battery seems unstable when we test the vehicle. This instability might randomly affect the performance of the vehicle when running.
This is the graph of Voltage of the battery vs. Distance of three sets of testing. The voltage changing dramatically when the vehicle run for a long distance.
A part of the reason might be the battery itself. To buy a better battery might be a good solution if we have an additional budget.
On the second hand, part of the reason might be the coding problem. Those sets of command might not be the most appropriate commanding style for this battery. Group members can gradually find out the best coding style for this type of vehicle by a large number of testing.
Committee Meeting Minutes 2 – Teams H, P, R
HR:
Time/ Location: 3/29/2018 Hitchcock
Action Items Before Meeting 2:
- Bring Team Meeting Minutes/Schedule
- Any items from Meeting 1
Agenda:
- Time Management and Planning
- AEV Consistency issues and AEV balance issues
- 2 different codes is necessary/helped
- In the process of tweaking design
- Group I has set a schedule
- Group H has used the plan of checking each others work
- Wants the feedback from progress reports. If they don’t have it by this weekend email Dr. K
- Are teams monitoring the project plan? Adjustments?
- Getting things done early
- Division of Work?
- People’s strengths are becoming clear
- Team Interaction
- Used the conflict resolution
Action Items for rest of term
- Keep moving forward
- Progress report 3 is not showing up on Carmen. Dr. K will look into this and it looks like its due Friday at 11:59pm.
RD:
- Tracks inconsistency were varying daily.
- Each team was struggling with the inconsistency of track. The tick marks were varying.