GENERAL SCHEDULE OF WORK

The schedule provided below will outline focus as well as distribution of work over the first 5 AEV lab experiments. This was readjusted following the creation of a TRR document when Team Earth moved into the preliminary/critical design review segment.

 

LAB 1 – CONCEPT CREATION/DESIGN

Required Steps: 

Section 1: By (1/27/2021) 

  • Learn two techniques used for creative design thinking.
  • Become familiar with obstacles to creativity.
  • Become familiar with the components in the AEV kit.

Section 2: By (2/03/2021)

  • Learn the basics of orthographic drawings.
  • Brainstorm on individual AEV concept sketches.

 

LAB 2- ARDUINO CODE BASICS

Required Steps: 

Section 1: (2/09/21) 

  • Create AEV design (from the initial two design concepts).
  • Become familiar with the automatic control system hardware components.

Section 2: (2/10/21) 

  • Set up the AEV software.
  • Program the basic function calls in controlling the AEV.
  • Be able to upload programs on the Arduino and test.
  • Become familiar with troubleshooting techniques.

 

LAB 3 – CONCEPT SCREENING/SCORING MATRICES & SENSOR TESTING

Required Steps: 

Section 1: (2/11/21) 

  • Become familiar and perform concept screening and scoring methods with AEV design
    concepts using the sample AEV as the reference.
  • Become familiar with the external sensor hardware components.

Section 2: (2/17/21) 

  • Become familiar with troubleshooting techniques. 
  • Program function calls for using external sensors with AEV control.
  • Create a pseudo code which can be used for analysis by the next lab experiment.

 

LAB 4 – SYSTEM ANALYSIS 1

Required Steps: 

Section 1: (3/03/2021) 

  • Become familiar with propulsion system efficiency.
  • Become familiar with wind tunnel testing equipment.
  • Analyze efficiency of all given propellers.

Section 2: (3/04/2021) 

  • Relate AEV to real-life objects.
  • Link wind tunnel testing to the AEV.
  • Make a choice regarding which propeller to use.

 

LAB 5 – SYSTEM ANALYSIS 2

Required Steps: 

Section 1: (3/10/21) 

  • Write two codes with different commands sets.
  • Run AEV on flat track portion.
    • Run with motorSpeed OR celerate commands.
  • Download data from the automatic control system.

Section 2: (3/16/2021) 

  • Run AEV on half-track portion.
  • Download data from automatic control system.
  • Convert EEPROM Arduino data to physical parameters.
  • Calculate performance characteristics using physical parameters.