Personal Accomplishments:

• Lab Meetings (4 hrs):
  • Discussed with TA and Professor the details of the proposal and cleared up design choices for MVP
• Team Meetings (4 hrs):
  • Worked on Design Review Slides and updating gant chart with updated tasks because of tweaked design for MVP
  • Decided to move away from RFID sensors and digital potentiometer.
  • Finished CAD prototype for carrier
• Research (4 hrs):
  • Researched H-Bridges, magnetometers, and ultrasonic sensors as alternatives for our proposal design.

Progress:

Behind Schedule – The schedule will be updated to reflect setbacks. We should have progressed with the coil circuitry this week but we needed to refine our design to meet our use case requirements. We initially were not sure about how we were going to implement obstacle detection and had mentioned LIDAR sensors in our presentation we decided to go with an ultrasonic sensor to make things simpler. We also decided not to use an RFID configuration to gauge user input as this was clunky and generally not what RFIDs are used for.

Next Week Deliverables:

1. 1.  Finish track CAD prototype
   2. Order magnets, sensors, 3D filament
   3. Start coil circuit try and Arduino voltage input