October 5th, 2022
- Peter Huang
- Anna Fyfe
- Logan Hartford
Please include critical progress updates, discussion items or meeting requests under your subteam section below. DOC WILL BE FINALIZED ON October 3RD END OF THE DAY
General Announcements
@Austin Tailon Huang
URC Registration Ends on Oct 26, 2022
SDC Meeting in the Week of Oct 24, 2022 - need all of your support! (system architecture details, current progress and approach on design blockers, current plan of attack)
No available work stations to add to our bay
Having trouble figuring out the status on robot racing stuff
Power supply in bay
Firmware resources!!!!
Safety Captain!!!
Mechanical
@Austin Tailon Huang @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan
UPDATES
Progress Updates
New science sensor head design completed
CAD updates in progress for Drivetrain and Arm
E-Box redesign assigned
Onboarding Updates
Retained ~10-12 new mech members in weekly meeting
All members have started training, ~25-50% complete
SolidWorks Tutorial postponed - very busy
ACTION ITEMS
What’s next?
Battery mount PDR
Science Sensor PDR
Gimbal mount PDR
Misc.
Comms support @Logan Hartford ?
Electrical
@Ari Wasch @Logan Hartford
UPDATES
Progress Updates
PDB Rev4 - Design and Assemble the PDB @Rishith Bomman has been asked to have the layout done by the 28th, design reviews will be done by the 1st and hopefully the board will be ordered on the 3rd.
Update: Layout reviews have been completed, parts are ordered, will be ordering boards after Wednesday's meeting.
BMS - Design and Assemble the BMS @Joshua Harper has been asked to have the layout done by the 28th, design reviews will be done by the 1st and hopefully the board will be ordered on the 3rd.
Update: Layout reviews have been completed, parts are ordered, will be ordering boards after Wednesday's meeting.
Multiphase Buck Converter Rev 2 - Design and Assemble the Buck Converter
One of the bucks has been assembled
We are blocked from testing it. We need a variable power supply, 0-60V for testing line regulation, and a high-power fixed supply for testing load regulation.
Update: Wolfy has ordered a fixed output power supply, and I’ve ordered some other supplies for testing.
Update: Austin is working on getting us a variable output power supply for testing.
Comms Yuchen has started working on creating documentation for how to use the comms system.
Update: Yuchen has created documentation from the URC rules and advisements. He still does not have access to confluence so I will be moving the information over.
Update: Yuchen is almost done working his way through the old google drive and creating some sort of documentation from that. Its pretty scattered though.
Onboarding Updates
So far we have 4 new members who are actively engaged with the team, David, Rayaan, Olivia, and Yuchen.
Rayaan has been assigned to PDB. He is currently working through the schematics. He will be in charge of assembly and testing when the time comes.
Olivia has been assigned to BMS. She is currently working through the schematics. He will be in charge of assembly and testing when the time comes.
Yuchen (aka Billy) volunteered to learn about the comms system. He has started looking through existing documentation and taking notes.
David is currently working through the training and tutorials. Once he is done with that, I will have him own getting the SPI LVDS boards up and running while mentoring him on a side project to get him familiar with Altium.
ACTION ITEMS
What’s next?
Buy a variable and a fixed output power supply (done now)
Order the PDB and BMS (This Wednesday hopefully)
Find all of the comms hardware and confirm the current setup so Yuchen can collect data sheets and create a plan for testing.
Over the reading week, Paul and I will test the buck, assuming we have both power supplies by then.
Over the reading week, Yuchen and I are going to go to the bay and try and set up some comms stuff.
Move Yuchens comms research over to confluence.
Misc.
Software
@Orson Marmon @Keyon Jerome
UPDATES
Progress Updates
What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)
How’re these tasks going?
Colin needs to know what he’s reading from the CAN bus – need to sync with FW
Have you completed any key steps/tasks?
UWRTCanWrapper class finished being ported
Nico has the ZED2 camera up and running
Have you encountered any blockers?
Colin needs to know what he’s reading from the CAN bus – need to sync with FW
Onboarding Updates
How’re the new members doing?
How’s the training going?
Many of the new members are setting up/going through training and we’re continuing to handle their requests through DMs mostly--we’d like to move this to our training channel
What’re they working on?
Most are working on training; AFAIK (Keyon) none of the new members from this semester have finished the training yet
Nico joined last semester and is already up and going at navigation
How’re they feeling?
Okay, but many need support. Hopefully planning to run a training session on a weekend, ASAP
ACTION ITEMS
What’s next?
Major focus of the team in the next week
Pushing for the hardware interface to be completed; need to ping Colin and see if he needs any help at all
Bringup of the ZED2 Camera with Nico is going well; got shown his simulation a couple weeks back
Deleting/combining unneeded tasks from PM tool as I go (Keyon)
Misc.
Firmware
@Jahnavi Thota
UPDATES
Jahnavi will be stepping away from the team indefinitely to focus on health
Hiring (responsibilities, exp gained, etc.)
ACTION ITEMS
Find EE and SW members to fill in FW resource gap!
Reassess FW plan - how can we get a platform working ASAP without CAN
From Cindy:
Science
@Clare Burnley
UPDATES
Progress Updates
What has your team been working on?
coordinating science tests - general sync up meeting in plans to bring new members to bay and see chemicals
more report review and new members training review
How’re these tasks going?
new members seem engaged, want to give them sufficient time to train and understand URC before we get too hands on with running chemical tests
Have you completed any key steps/tasks?
planning chemical testing – worked with some Faculty of Env. profs (Dr. Jen Parks, Dr. John Johnson) and plan to collaborate further to help plan meaningful tests
Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?
no
Have you encountered any blockers?
Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?
no
Onboarding Updates
How’re the new members doing?
How’s the training going?
members engaged, working through training at comfortable pace
What’re they working on?
reviewing Science plan research & URC guidelines
How’re they feeling?
easing into things- deciding whether this is a commitment they want to take on
ACTION ITEMS
What’s next?
Large sync up meeting and/or bay visit to view chemicals
Misc.
Ideally, science subteam would have ~1 hour uninterrupted in the bay to complete science tasks (working with chemicals so this is for everyones safety), likely post-reading week October, will update team closer to when we want to complete this but informing now
Business
@Anna Fyfe
UPDATES
Progress Updates
What has your team been working on?
Had our first team meeting and showed them the new ticket structure and made a plan for the term.
How’re these tasks going?
Ticket system seems like it will work quite well. One member was excited to work on the team budget with me which is great!
Have you completed any key steps/tasks?
No
Have you encountered any blockers?
Team members aren’t on confluence yet to edit (Chan is going to add soon!)
Onboarding Updates
How’re the new members doing?
no new members :((
ACTION ITEMS
What’s next?
Book another meeting with the one team member to talk about the team’s budget and walk through how it works with her. Hopefully that she can take the reins on that one.
Fill out excel for Austin + Chan + me for the new finance system (most likely won’t use as not for WEEF, but good to try it out)
Misc./Questions
When are people’s midterms?
There is funding from sci soc, is science/mec ready to order sensors yet?
Motor Controller + Motors Purchase? - Assistance @Austin Tailon Huang