- Important announcement: Water Test Tomorrow!
- Weekly agenda & procedure:
- Working group meetings and task group meetings
- Saturday - Thursday: new additions to robot
- Thursday 4:00 PM - Dry test in the lab - no more electrical changes
- Thursday 7:00 PM - Weekly meeting
- End of day Thursday - wrap up all mechanical changes - WEEKLY DEADLINE
- For large-scale changes that affect multiple subsystems, installation should start earlier in the week (begin Wednesday or earlier)
- Ex: a new E-stop system that requires a new external mount, internal mount, electrical system, and code
- Smaller changes can be started closer to the weekly deadline, as long as they can be completed before the deadline
- Ex: sensor protection that is purely external
- Friday - CRC water test
- 9:00 AM - arrive at lab, begin load-in and transportation
- 10:00 AM - begin water test in CRC competition pool
- 2:00 PM - end water test, remove robot and field elements from pool, move back to Weber
- 2:30 PM - Hose sub off behind Weber, put sub and field elements away
- Friday night / Saturday morning - Post-test notes will be released
- Saturday-Thursday - new additions to the robot
- Post-test notes:
- New method of informing members of water test results
- Posted on Notion and Teams
- Will include important developments, problematic observed behaviors, and new action items in response to the results of the test
- ALL MEMBERS, PLEASE READ POST-TEST NOTES WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED
- Test notes may indicate a necessary change to tasks and priorities
- General notes:
- We will be using SolidWorks 2025 this year, please update to the latest version
- Water test 1 plan:
- DVL testing - drift (especially depth)
- 2 people coding, 1 on tether, 2-3 (or more) people in pool
- Erin’s car
- Publishing waypoints
- Use slalom posts as markers (to measure DVL drift)
- Administrational note: clean up project board, task list, schedule, calendar, etc
- Use projects tab, tasks is linked to it but is less user-friendly
- Tasks:
- Mechanical
- New sensor protection - John
- New internal e-stop mount - Agatta (dependent on new e-stop circuit)
- Internal redesign - heat sinking plate - John
- Torpedo documentation - Talk to Shawn - John
- Torpedo redesign - Agatta, new members
- Torpedo balancing - Sebastian
- Torpedo propeller research - new members - If time permits
- ESC wire holder -
- Electrical
- New e-stop circuit - Erin
- Future-proofing the electronics for adding more actuators
- Change Ming’s PCB - Aaron
- Ming’s PCB Post-Mortem Monday 7:00
- Internal redesign layout - John
- Quick-connect wire harness - Nick (part of back plate team)
- Upgrade battery tube cables! - Nalini (overseen by experienced member)
- Back plate - Aaron
- Change torpedo microcontroller to Pi Zero - Anjali (?)
- Pico vs Zero? Design review for Jason’s PCB
- Zero vs embedded discussion
- Software
- Investigate and fix DVL drift - Mitchell, Matthew
- Depth sensor integration - Jason, Omer
- Sonar - not yet started
- Build robust, well-tested version of position control from comp (add features, clean up code) - Matthew
- Write documentation - Mitchell
- Simulation -
- Torpedo algorithms - Jason, Gianna
- Basic: average position of red pixels
- Advanced: lightweight CV model
- Task groups
- Torpedo
- Responsible engineer - Agatta
- Dhruv, Sebastian, Jason, Gianna, Anjali, John
- Internal redesign
- Responsible engineers - Erin
- John - heat sinking, heat sink plate layout
- Erin - PCBs, integration, wire harness, everything else
- Mustafa, Nalini (trainees for soldering), Aaron
- Post competition software refinement
- Responsible engineer - Mitchell
- Autonomy
- Responsible engineer - Mitchell
- Sasanka, Peyton, Sophia, Nathan
- Back plate
- Responsible engineer - Aaron
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