2021-01-19 Meeting Minutes - General

Owned by
Olabisi Sanusi
Last updated: Aug 21, 2021

Goals

  • Revamping the Drivetrain (*Try to stay comfortably within 90 A, new battery rated for 90 A*

           Lower current if possible)

  • Switch the arm motors to harmonic drive gearboxes
  • Fix the 2021 Rover assemblies
  • Force-sensitive claws

Update & Action Items

Member (Tasks in black refer to both members)UpdateAction Items

Asha ME, Emily A

  • Taken inventory of all parts and started preparing for assembly
  • Delivered McMaster and Spaenaur parts to Elizabeth for other mechanisms
  • Decision needs to be made about the missing fasteners
  • Need to place another McMaster/Spaenaur order
  • Need to add a couple parts to machining order


Jasmine M, Rehnuma T

  • Collected main gimbal parts (some missing)

  • E-box wrong orientation in main assembly (needs to be updated)

  • Catalog Fasteners
  • Waiting on some components (Electrical + Fasteners)


Mathieu H, Austin(?)

  • Got most of the parts from the bay today
  • Lazy Suzan bearing has problems
  • Going to finish inventory of arm parts
  • Waiting on parts from Demtool (ETA 28 of Jan)

  • Almost ready to send motor shafts for fab.


Jasmine M
  • 70% through design - Aiming for completing by 01-21-2020 (Thursday)
  • Design Review (This weekend?)
  • Layout from Electrical - Due 01-22-2020


Ethan C
  • No progress since last week
  • Need to create Rev1
  • Not blocked by anyone


Abdul H
  • Points to describe progress
  • Indicate if blocked by other members


Austin H
  • Created spreadsheet to get information for script development



Rehnuma
  • Received science camera, design aiming to be done this weekend


New Tasks

 

Task

Name

SAR Video

Austin, Jasmine (after main e-box design done)

Force-sensing claws

Shreshth Mehra

Drivetrain revamp

Medina Colabrese

Max Apitz-Grossman

Emily Adam

Fixing 2021 CAD

Alaina (?)

Harmonic drive

Emily Adam

Battery

Ethan, Rehnuma, austin after SAR

New mechanism design




General Notes

SAR update

  • This week and next week we will continue to focus on assembly of subsystems. Communication is key right now, keep people updated with parts or anything else you need to complete your work.
  • Mathieu went into the bay on Monday and Tuesday to grab parts as needed
  • Continue to make video suggestions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nHkIZ7RM1YnBL17pz-qTBCnfkuRY-as1CBwRSMsuBVc/edit?usp=sharing 

Project Update Slides

  • Starting this week, weekly updates regarding mechanism/project progress will have their own slide
  • This will replace individual update slides
  • Better way of organizing all the information regarding one project, especially when the project involves multiple members