2020-06-09 Meeting Minutes - General

Update & Action Items

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Andrew

  • Working on -->
  • Brainstorm/sketch hub motor attachment
  • Finish arm & motor controller pcb integration onto arm

Alaina

  • Working on 1 & 2
  • Weight of joints for 6-wheel design 
  • CAD based on Tony’s FBD 
  • Figure out how to attach hub motor  
  • Treads?
  • Chain on science (postponed)  

Asha

  • Updated science flap
  • Member training plan
  • Drivetrain - wheel deformation modeling
  • Minor updates to science CAD
  • Motor calculations

Caleb

  • Gimbal Design Review
  • Battery box (research into how other people make them)
  • Rover main drive torque calc (confirming)
  • Gimbal redesign - Use 9g servo. 
  • Gimbal redesign - Align camera axis
  • Gimbal redesign - find replacement (lower amps for current HiTech servos)

Cindy

  • IMU mounting considerations
  • IMU mounting considerations

Tony

  • Selected 1 hub motor for testing, unknown if torque requirement matches
  • Approx.ed beach wheel measurements, prelim CAD for wheel hubs underway
  • Read 15/70 pages of composite book chapter
  • Drive train project support / management
  • Mech design review
  • Sketch and CAD preliminary design for wheel hubs
  • Finish reading unidirectional composite material properties, estimate structural member sizes
  • Get hub motor ordered
  • Define drivetrain constraints and requirements in system doc

David

  • Trying not to be depressed about army
  • Finished shovel re-design
  • Started e-box CAD
  • Finalize e-box layout
  • Design testing frame/procedure for shovel re-design

Cole

  • Source & CAD new wrist slip ring
  • Design e-box connector panel
  • E-box lid design

Emily

  • Uncovered hub motor specs
  • Refined ideas for the science mechanism’s seal
  • Attaching drivetrain to 2020 chassis

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