Team members:

All except Samuel, Abhishek

Agenda:

  • Fusion 360 feedback from Amanda
  • EV3 summer camp video upload in dropbox
  • presentation contest at Kick off party
  • Plano International Festival exhibition planning (Justin)
  • Amanda’s summer work sharing
    • team management tool
    • presentation app for in pit interview
  • FTC workshop registration and sessions planning (Coach)
  • Summer chassis test results review (Coach)
  • Summer chassis video review (Max)
  • FTC workshop vendor support status update (Coach)
  • FTC workshop presentation topics assignment and detailing (Coach)
    • Melody: Direct drive vs geared/chained drive (pros and cons)
    • Audrey: Show the graphs for the comparison between direct drive and geared drive with graph, explain the comparison for the difference (agreeable to what Melody researched?)
    • Jerry: VEX versaplanetary gear box usage and summary of all 2-wheel test results in graph (thee lines in each graph)
    • Derek: Sideway movement improvement and test design
    • Anthony: Expansion Hub mounting position and API; motor performance compensation by software
    • Evan: Macanum chassis control logic
    • Ray: Comparison of Tornado, HEX motor and AndyMark motors
    • Austin: How to make the robot go straight, discovery of impact from motor performance matching and setup to test the DC motor; DC motor internals
    • Abhishek: Custom chassis build tips/tricks
    • Brandon: Chassis study project test overall design and spec (including all updates we made from summer and the detailed spec on the ramp and balancing stone since not all teams have seen those in person)
    • Justin: prepare the slides for GrabCAD used in the summer chassis study project
    • Samuel: Summary of Chassis project results
  • FTC workshop CAD sessions:
    • Justin: prepare the email to be sent out to the teams who want to do the PTC sessions (about downloading, setting up with license etc)
    • Amanda: prepare the slides for the topics on Fusion 360 in developing one of the chassis
    • Justin: prepare the slides for rendering the simulation of PTC model in autodes
    • Max: PTC workshop tutorial #6
    • Melody: PTC workshop tutorial #1
    • Audrey: PTC workshop tutorial #3
    • Derek: PTC workshop tutorial #4
Action Items: (Blue means completed, Black means ongoing and Red means uncompleted)

General

  • Amanda: find out more about Trello
    • can we see team member names on the card on the dashboard?
    • can team members see all of their action items in one single list like a summary?
    • can we customize the frequency of notifications?
  • Amanda: email team 9010 about open issues with Fusion 360 (inserting omni wheel assemblies and gear meshing to complete the chassis model)
  • Max: edit FTC workshop video
    • remove watermark
    • switch all titles to be in the center
    • fix cuts
    • change chassis back to normal speed when they are driving on the ramp
    • take out some of the shots of driving up the ramp
    • delete credits
    • add team names at end with white background and fade the text

Outreach

  • General:
    • Everyone: Prepare for outreach presentation contest
    • Outreach activity leading
      • Justin: lead Plano International Festival exhibition event (10/13/2018)
      • Amanda: Lead ACP demo event (11/17/2018)
      • Abhishek: seek Independence High School /FISD STEM event opportunity
  • EV3 Summer camp wrapup
    • Anthony: upload video files
    • Audrey: upload the photos to show the challenge setup for the hard challenge that we don’t have video
    • Derek: clean up the videos and allow permission
    • Ray: move the video files to the right folder
  • FTC workshop vendor support recruitment
    • Everyone: update the doc with the response you received from the vendor (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdQuNNz7LvykGydr9OwoT4JFIA58qrYFHq08mtkrlqE/edit?usp=sharing)
      • Jerry: VEX pro
      • Ray/Justin: REV (pick up motor from REV and put response from vendor in document)
      • Abhishek: Andy Mark
  • FTC workshop CAD sessions:
    • Justin: prepare the email to be sent out to the teams who want to do the PTC sessions (about downloading, setting up with license etc) Audrey to confirm the instructions during 5.0 installation
    • Justin/Amanda: prepare the slides for CAD tips and tricks session
    • get familiar with your session steps (make your environment ready)
      • Max: PTC workshop tutorial #6
      • Melody: PTC workshop tutorial #1
      • Audrey: PTC workshop tutorial #3
      • Derek: PTC workshop tutorial #4
  • FTC Workshop Slides
    • Everyone: upload your v2 CAD model files to GrabCAD
    • Everyone: make sure your chassis name in the title slide is the same as the one in the test results sheet
    • Everyone: make sure your presenter introduction includes how many years in FIRST, what you have done in FIRST, and the FIRST programs you have been in
    • Everyone: add more details to notes slides (CAD notes and build notes)like what you did wrong and how you fixed it
    • Everyone: make sure to add somewhere in your slides if you’re using modern robotics motor controller
    • Everyone: on pull strength test slide, delete row with 40 lb
    • Everyone: if you add the problems you had in build and CAD notes make sure to add how you resolved the problem
    • Everyone: make sure font is size 14 for normal slides and 36 for orange title slides
    • Melody: add what you did wrong for the CAD notes slide
      • did default constraint instead of pin constraint
    • Melody: add CAD model version 2 slides
    • Melody: wooden tray support channels for build notes
    • Melody: add turn portion to the summary section
    • Audrey: add pictures to slide #6
    • Audrey: add how you solved your problems on the build notes slide
    • Audrey: adjust formatting on balancing stone slide
    • Audrey: add more to summary slide
      • gearing up makes chassis faster
      • turn behavior
    • Audrey: make title more concise on slide #22 (direct drive vs geared drive)
    • Audrey: add explanations to direct drive vs geared drive slides
    • Derek: edit slide #7
      • 2 NeveRest 40 motors
      • 3 wheel geared drive
      • left right wheel with 1:1 gear middle gear is 2:1
      • 5 4-inch omni wheels
      • modern robotics controller
    • Derek: make sure to write how you solved your problem on the CAD notes slide
    • Derek: add version 2 of CAD model
    • Derek: check font size
    • Derek: edit slide #15
      • no deviation from spec
      • this chassis fits well for a flat surface but not for ramps and stones
    • Derek: edit slide #21 (summary slide)
      • add turn behavior notes
      • add drift behavior notes
        • with all omni-wheel chassis they drift a lot
    • Derek: change title on slide #22
    • Derek: edit slide #24
      • delete bullet point#1
      • mention that you can only have up to 5 lb load because of single motor
    • Derek: edit slide #25
      • mention that drift only 4 feet
    • Anthony: Brackets means variable(take the brackets out)
    • Anthony: Add the 2 views : Top, and side
    • Anthony: Not Actobotics chassis in the chassis spec
    • Anthony: Fix CAD image
    • Anthony: Explain why the screws are getting screwed up
    • Anthony: Change Test 2 to “comparable with other 4 wheel drives”
    • Anthony: For every test, mention the smaller wheels
    • Anthony: Test 5 say chassis as always getting slower
    • Anthony: Test 7 explain it like “I tuned the loads kP values”
    • Anthony: For summary don’t say middle of spectrum
    • Anthony: Software compensation: Show code snippet
    • Anthony: firstangle doesn’t correspond to the xyz value, Sensor automatically makes firstangle the heading
    • Evan: reformat the slides, add personal summaries and delete first part

Technical

  • Abhishek/Jerry/Ray: complete the test of your chassis, Update your status on Gantt chart and Update your Joint Engineering notebook

8565 Pre-season Team Meeting #22 – 8/25/2018

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