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18th December Planning Meeting

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Bluesat Meeting $15 000 for OWR covers robot build Need more money for transport etc

March review possible more money Technical review be technically ready Make a good case for ready to go to competition Get money to actually go here

Petitioned Mechanical Engineering Labs about mechanical lab

Australian

GANTT chart (Currently Incomplete)


JAN

Biographies, team info, Project description etc

Elec Components Core known and ordered

Jan 9th UNI machine shops open

GUI Done or at least mostly done

ProtoBuff

23rd Jan

MECH DESIGN DONE CAD EVERYTHING Drawings finalised

Sensors and Image Processing

FEBRUARY

Comp Sensors, integration and Testing

TESTING


MARCH

14th Critical Design Review note some teams are eliminated Video Proof of Working Rover


APRIL

25th April - Radio and Wireless Certification sent to URC Antenna Documents due


MAY

20th In USA doing competition

15th May Presentation Video

30th


General NOtes: MOst electrical should be similar to the Arkaroola Expedition Rover

Tasks to do: Contact Claude Simmons about getting robots to test with from CSE

Mech laser cutting

Steph's electrical diagrams from Arkaroola Expedition

Global Systems Requirements doc for Rover

Get US power supplies / transformers

Jeff on Wireless communication parts selection

Add current radio bandwidth indicator to GUI Possibly add ability to change in GUI

Comp requirements rehashed: Networking Position Video Stream

GPS MOtor Control

Image processing Get Panarama somehow Indicate cardinal directions

Rules Regulations REquirement

Teams operate from inside a

GPS standard WGS 84 datum

coordinates will be supplied in lattitude longitude format (degrees, inute)

max 15 deg slope

temperatures 100 deg F =~ 38 deg Celsius

Teleops ~ 1km non-line of site

Max allowed Mass 50kg doing stuff at competition 70kg all parts (some used independently) does not include spares, tools, etc

  EAch event robot

  May be operated remotely by team, but it may not be in line-of-site communicationa nd will not be visible.

  900MHz and 2.4GHz bands are furhter regulated


  25th of April Wireless Radio Certification
     
  Max 3m Antenna and within 5m of Team Tent
     doc antenna by documentation deadline

  Not use freq bandwidths greater than 
     
  Need to be able to change radio sub-band
     NOt greater than

  Must be able ot operate with other teams running simultaneously
     on a different band

  Competing against 1 other rover

  2hrs to reconfigure bewteen tasks
     
  Each events include presentation task
     
  20 minutes to setup communication systems
     and start robot
  10 minutes 

  Soil analysis onboard

  Good Camera

  Soil Sample 5g 5cm deep or deeper

  TEst soil sample ph and humidity

  30-60 minutes to collect samples and data
     Can assess multiple 

  15 minutes analyse data
     discussion with judges

  Need reasons for 
     Geological reasoning

Astronaut assistance task Get and deliver items

  Given GPS coordinates

  Equipment 
     Small hand tools
        hammers , wrenches

     Containes
        petrol cans, 
        tool box

     Specific equipment to specific stronaut  

     put item down in 1m of Astronaut

Signal Repeater put down task

Equipment servicing task dextrous operations on

  robot gripper must be able to rotate
     turn nobs, handles, etc

Terrain obstacles

  Rocks
  vertical drops in excess 0.5m

Terrain obstacles will be gates and/or paths

  Steep slope in excess 45 deg
  Ascend

  GAtes 2 pvc pipes
     10 cm diameter
     2m apart
        fit through 2m gap

  Marked routes between white ropes at least 2m apart

  Teams given obstacle coordinates and are allowed to walk teh
     course beforehand

  30-60 mins on course
     do not have to return to start

Presentation TAsk Due 15 May

  15 minute max presentation

  Team structure organisation and management
  
  Track all finances
     submitted no later than 23rd March
     may submit updated on 28th May
     25 pt per day late

     US$15,000 max budget
        can use most advantageous

     may be required to submit receipts
     donations documented by donar

     old, reused components listed as new or
        using deprecation rules