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Meeting Style
How do we want to arrange team discussions moving forwards?
e.g. update focused, vs subsystem focused
more cross sub-team collaborations (e.g. October’s general meeting, yesterday’s drivetrain meeting were good)
PDR PDR (Preliminary Design Review Reports are due no later than 11:59pm Mountain Standard Time (MST; UTC-7) on December 3, 2021.)
https://urc.marssociety.org/home/requirements-guidelines/preliminary-design-review
Each sub-team should write up a short paragraph describing their subsystem
Example from last year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9ZB0ADZ4zBIYMw5c7c2nWJdRhN2yeoIOxv2uG27XV0/edit
GANTT chart (preferred by URC)
“The Gantt chart should include at least the period September, 2021 through June, 2022. Specify when the team is testing remote communication, navigation, manipulation and science tasks required for competition. The chart must be of sufficient resolution so it is readable when enlarged.”
PDR for 2022 (the one we’re working on now)
Timelines
Mechanical: Manufacturing timelines from Mech?
How long does mech need to build everything (assuming all parts are in)
December to January (manufacture and assembly)
Divide team into manufacturing methods
lathe, cnc, 3d printing
Electrical: How long does electrical estimate they need to wire + test everything?'
PDB: assembled by end of december (pushed to mid-jan cause BMS integration, test by end of January)
Gimbal, Multi-phase buck, Jetson, end of this term, and midway though January, assembly and test
Science (worried about this one, just started schematic now)
Schematic takes longer than layout (Farris will get back on that)
Schematic end of the month (tentative)
Differential encoders, someone on EE will design that
SW/FW: How long does SW/FW estimate they need to test their code?
FW: aiming to have Odrive and stm32 all ready by end of December
bug squashing in January
Need a ODrive test rig (Ethan will do that this weekend)
(designed by saturday)
Caleb might need to do some more machining for this one
Need to make a microcontroller for gimbal (FW and Electrical need to communicate on this one)
Time TBD
SW:
Drivetrain handed off to Melvin (redesigned)
Orson working on arm (get arm done end of November)
much faster now
Software training is still being done by new software people
January/Feb to get things done
Science: Time until science plan is finished?
Science plan due in May
SAR starts early March, late Feb, lets plan to get everything done by latest mid January
Components
Encoders: If I don’t get any email reply from RLS, I’ll send out a follow up email today once my midterm’s done
W2022 Leadership (For all the sub-team leads to think about)
Think about new lead
Caleb will be doing the transition for the next month of the next term
Faculty advisor?
Updates from Finance
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Thank you to the leads for your help with WEEF!!
We had our presentation on Tuesday, and I’ve found out from a friend on the council that we have tentatively received our 4th option. (officially confirmed in the next two weeks or so). This was less then we thought based on how much was allocated, but still around how much we normally get for a term. There will also be more funding available for next term then normal.
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