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Revision as of 17:02, 24 August 2015
Notebook
Week 1 (January 14 to January 21)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Each part of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Starting to acquire knowledge
- Starting to build the OPENTRONS's robot
- Problems encountered
- Assignment of the POS's parts to team's members
- Internal communications not efficient (Too much posts on the Facebook wall)
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 2 (January 22 to January 28)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Thinking about an efficient way to organise internal communications
- First mecanical designs of the modules
- First experimentations done on Peltier elements
- Objectives for the Next Week
- First experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
- Problems encountered
- No Instuction received from Opentron to build their robot
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 3 (January 29 to February 4)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Preliminary mecanical design of the MC96
- Finalizing the reserch on Peltier elements and photoreceptors
- Choosing microcontroller used in each modules
- Meeting with Opentrons
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Continuing experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
- Starting to order pieces for first prototypes
- Problems encountered
- Disagreement with Mecatronix team about the microcontroller choice
- Machining of some metal parts are too complex for university's tools
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 4 (February 5 to February 11)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Experimentations and order of magnets
- Modeling of the turbidity function
- 3D modeling of all modules
- Heat transmission simulation of the TAC
- Split the Project Management Plan (PMP) into individual parts
- Correction of the individual parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
- Order Peltier elements
- Peer review of team's performance
- Problems encountered
- Difficult choice between multiples 3D designs for the MC96
- Difficult choice between different types of magnets, due to many constraints (mecanical and physical)
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 5 (February 12 to February 18)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
- Peltier elements received and characterized
- Peer review of team's performance
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Finishing Heat transmission simulation
- Starting electrical plans for the TAC
- Finishing Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Midterm project audit
- Problems encountered
- Courses overload for 4 members of the team
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 6-8 (February 19 to March 11)
Instrumentation
- Done These Weeks
- Electrical design of the H bridge for the Peltier element
- First iteration of the User Interface
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with an aluminium piece
- Serial communication to the microcontroller
- TAC function implemented on the microcontroller
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Build the H bridge circuit
- Begin the electrical design of the module circuits
- Adapt Psoc4 microcontroller code to Psoc5 microcontroller
- Replace the air cooling system on the MC96 with a more powerful liquid cooling system
- Communication USB to User Interface
- Problems encountered
- The heat sink does not sink enough heat from the Peltier element
- First electrical design for the H bridge not conclusive
Mecatronix
- Done These Weeks
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 9 (March 12 to March 18)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Simulation of Peltier Element electrical behavior
- Adapt Psoc4 microcontroller code to Psoc5 microcontroller
- 3D Design of the liquid cooling system for MC96
- Second iteration of the User Interface after the client feedback
- Programming of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Building the H bridge
- Starting the PCB electrical design
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the TAC
- Establish communication between User interface and microcontroller
- Problems encountered
- Aluminium piece for the TAC arrived late
- No electrical simulation model for desired H bridge pieces
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 10 (March 19 to March 25)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Adapt PWM output of the H bridge to a steady DC level for Peltier element
- First TCP communication between User interface and Rasberry Pi 2
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the TAC
- Starting Programmation of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a PCB to adapt the Banana Board output for Peltier element
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the MC1.5
- Establish communication between User interface and microcontroller
- Problems encountered
- New Peltier elements are not yet arrived
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 11 (March 26 to April 1)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Meeting with Acrolab Ltd. to discuss about heat pipe prototyping for the MC96
- Improving User interface
- Improvement of the 3D design of the MC1.5
- Programmation of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Starting the scientific paper about the project
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a temperature control algorithm for the TAC
- Implementing the turbidity function in the TAC
- Programming the microcontroller for the TAC
- Ending the improvements of the 3D design of the MC1.5
- Continuing the scientific paper about the project
- Problems encountered
- Heat pipes very expensive (about 90$ per heat pipe)
- Heat sinks are not yet arrived
- Holes in the aluminium piece for the MC1.5 are too tight for the 1.5 ml tube
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 12 (April 2 to April 8)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Writing of the scientific paper
- Prototype circuit for the turbidity function of the TAC
- Implementation of the turbidity algorithm in C language
- Shopping for a new linear actuator
- Modeling of the thermal system of the TAC
- Improving User interface
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a temperature control algorithm for the TAC
- Implementing the turbidity function in the TAC
- Programming the microcontroller for the TAC
- Finishing the writing of the scientific paper
- Problems encountered
- One Peltier element was faulty
- The remaining Peltier element emit too much heat for the available heat sinks
- Problems with the Psoc5 libraries
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 13 (April 9 to April 15)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Writing of the scientific paper
- Calibrating the turbidity measurements in the TAC
- Preparing the end of session project audit
- Shopping for a new linear actuator
- Correcting the 3D design of the TAC
- Correcting the 3D design of the MC1.5
- Improving User interface
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a temperature control algorithm for the TAC
- End of session project audit
- Integrating multiple functions of the TAC on the microcontroller
- Finishing the writing of the scientific paper
- Peer review of team's performance
- Problems encountered
- End of session exams
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 14 (April 16 to April 22)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered