2020-05-05 Meeting Minutes - General

Goals

• S20 First meeting
• Goal: improve rover for next competition

Update & Action Items

New Tasks

• Arm
• Motor controllers
• Localization
• Science

General Notes

• Bay closed for foreseeable future due to COVID
• Want to start using ANSYS and SW PDM

Planned Projects

• Continuing science module development (probably most important)
• 3 D.O.F., continuous pan, self-stabilizing gimbal (generic cool mech project)
• Replacing 12v DC with 24v DC (possibly brushless) motors (reserved for masochists)
• Sexy wire, control and driver PCB management (mech x ee = best ship)
• Fixing base station (bringing big guns with FEA)
• Robot Arm mods (camera mounting, modeling backlash / make unified calc)
• New drivetrain

 Science

• Sealing mechanism currently unreliable (not properly tested)
• Hooks for lifting seal cause binding because they only lift from one side
• Elevator currently doesn’t go down all the way (due to CAD oversight)
• Shovel being redesigned to be two claws (David Choi)
• Indexing limit switches are kinda sketchy (but may be due to print quality)
• Elevator limit switches don’t always contact properly
• Elevator CF spring might not be necessary?
• Probably want to switch motors to brushless

Gimbal

• Missouri has it, ask them how theirs work?
• Betaflight - Cole Myers
• Pixhawk
• Cole to talk to Lance offline about drones :)

Replace 12V motors with 24V motors

• Maybe brushless?
• Spec 24V motors and integrate them into our robot

New drivetrain

• Carbon fiber 
• BLDC motors
• Lighter