2021-01-12 Meeting Minutes - General

2021-01-12 Meeting Minutes - General

Goals

  • Revamping the drivetrain

  • Switch the arm motors to harmonic drive gearboxes

 

 

  • Fix the 2021 Rover assemblies

 

 

  • Force-sensitive claws

 

Update & Action Items

Member

Update

Action Items

Member

Update

Action Items

Alaina Hansen

  • Handed off science mechanism 

  • Picked up Spaenaur order

  • Will be handing off gimbal this week

Asha Mills Emmett

  • Picked up parts for science

  • Sort through Spaenaur fasteners

 

Ethan Cronier

  • New battery in progress

  • Figure out where to put new battery - 2022

  • Assembly stuff - Tasks for someone in person

  • Assemble new rover comms bracket when fasteners and brackets come in

  • Send message to Abdul about base station assembly

Rehnuma Tasneem

 

  • Pick up science camera

  • Work on assembly with Jasmine

  • New science camera mount design

 

Max Apitz-Grossman

  • Ebox baseplate and box tubing connectors (done before break)

  • Need to choose quick-release pins from McMaster Carr

 

Medina Colabrese

  • Still working on wire management

  • Finish collecting data

  • Determine wire lengths, required harness sizes, etc

 

Abdul Haseeb

 

  • imma do what Asha tell me 

    • Base Station assembly - parts in the bay

 

Austin Huang

  • Cleaned up main assembly CAD

  • SAR Planning - Plan discussion topics for each video segment, reach out to different subteams for info 

  • Continue to update and investigate CAD

  • Make machining instructions/drawings for encoder stuff (will be done ASAP!)

 

Jasmine Milan

  • Figure out what is going on with material!!=

  • Touch base with electrical team on size of cords going through ethernet connector hole to update strain relief solution

  • Once strain relief approved, update CAD (Message Lead)

  • Talk to Ethan about location of batter/estop connector hole

  • Dimension and placement of Electrical Components (In talks with Electrical)

 

  • Machine shop & COVID training

 

Emily Adam

  • Made a revised version of the funnel pieces for Science

  • Picked up the Science mechanism from Alaina

  • Finish Science assembly with Asha...

 

Andrew Zhang

 

  • Finish arm model

  • Collect rotational inertia data

 

 

New Tasks

  • Work on revamping the drivetrain!

  • Look into updating current arm motors to harmonic drive gearboxes

  • Fix the 2021 rover assemblies

  • Work on force-sensitive claw