Meeting Notes 10/17/12

Meeting Type: Advisor Meeting

Attending:

Advisor(s): Dr. Clark

Members: Greg, Kyle, Sondra, Alex, Stuart, Santi

Excused: Darryl (in Indianapolis)

Action Items

1. Prepare buoyancy calculations to show Dr. Clark
2. Email Dr. Clark to ask Dr. Chuy about image processing experiences
3. Make diagram/chart of tasks to be handled on computer versus Arduinos
4. Highlight the difference between the vision team and the top-level team
5. Organize task lists and program designs in programming teams
6. Include a top-level design for next week
7. Prepare presentation for Dr. Amin (concept generation only)

Meeting Topics

• Progress overview
• Advice on next steps
• What Dr. Clark wants to see next week

Important Notes

• Dr. Clark is satisfied with our progress
• We may need to be proactive with getting unlisted employers on the FSU vendor list
  • Talk to the vendors to expedite their paperwork

Transcript (Notes)

• Completed by ME team
  • Prototype frame with thrusters and torpedo mounted
  • Parts ordered
  • Buoyancy calculations
    • Seems a little heavy
    • Dr. Clark wants to see them
• Notes on ME team accomplishments
  • Will have 6 thrusters, not just the 3 on side
• Next week’s tasks ME
  • Will start working on proE drawings of the claw, torpedoes, stuffs
  • Get buoyancy calculations ready
  • Weight and balance calculations?
• EE stuffs
  • Device testing
    • The immediate start within 0.1[V] of ~4.5[V] is expected behavior for a DC motor
  • Arduino MEGA has more pins to put all thrusters on one board
    • Breakdown of task communications between the computer and the Arduinos
• General Advice
  • Be proactive in battery purchases by talking to vendors to expedite their paperwork
  • Likes our current progress
• To Do next week programming team
  • Bring diagram of all of computer vs. Arduino tasks
  • Top-level diagram for next week
• Programming notes
  • Email Dr. Clark about image processing dude
    • Chuy
      • Have you worked with OpenCV
      • How does it output information for the other components
  • There are no documents to be obtained from Alex on OpenCV, he was mainly ding preliminary research
  • Make sure Kyle and Alex have access to work on Arduino software

Group Notes

Not available