Fall 2017 Goals/Schedule

Owned by Taiping Li
Aug 23, 2017

Overall

  • Power train should be complete before November for rolling chassis
  • Required items: 
    • Motor interface
      • Hardware
        • Currently we have a schematic and PCB layout, but the layout is yet to be optimized
      • Software (Fidel Musa (Deactivated))
        • Should be done by November, 2017
    • Power distribution
      • Hardware (Taiping Li)
        • Rev 2.1 has been brought up, further testing has to be done on resistance losses
        • Testing should be done by beginning of September, 2017
      • Software (Calder Kitagawa)
        • In progress, everything other than CAN/relays are complete. 
        • Complete by end of September, 2017
    • BMS AFE
      • Hardware (Kevin Chen (Unlicensed))
        • A few issues have to be fixed with rev 2
        • Should be done by end of September if possible
    • BMS Carrier
    • Driver Controls 
      • Hardware (Taiping Li)
        • Boards will be brought up before September and tested
        • Steering wheel board should be defined by end of September. 
      • Software (Fidel Musa (Deactivated))
        • I2C slaves have to be integrated, CAN has to be programmed
        • Basic functionality should be tested before September
    • Telemetry
      • Hardware (New Member)
        • Connect SD card, XBee, GPS, Controller Board together (No PCB required for testing)
        • Done by October/November
      • Software (Karl Ding for SD card and GPS, Calder Kitagawa/New Member for the rest) 
        • Done by October/November
    • Kill Switch
      • No specific hardware or software required. 

Boards to do

  • Lights
    • Hardware (New Member)
      • Order all the lights and characterize them for power consumption
      • Find appropriate LED drivers and design a PCB
      • Done by end of November, 2017
    • Software (New Member)
      • Done by end of November, 2017
  • Driver display
    • Hardware (New Member) 
      • Powers the Raspberry Pi (+5V), and Display (+12V)
      • Passes signals from the Controller board to the Pi
      • Controls display settings by using the button IOs
      • Done by end of November, 2017
    • Software (New Member, Calder Kitagawa)
      • Same code as Telemetry/Motor interface
      • Done by end of January/February 2017
  • Telemetry
    • See above
  • Aux BMS
    • Hardware (New Member)
      • Actively protects the Aux battery from OV/UV conditions
  • DCDC Board
    • Hardware (Taiping Li, New Member)
      • Ideally complete before November, if not then we will have to use a lead acid battery for rolling chassis
  • Solar Master
    • Hardware (Taiping Li, New Member)
      • Talks to the solar salves via I2C
      • Controls solar relay
      • Complete by end of the term
    • Software (New Member)
      • Complete by end of term
  • Solar Slave
    • Hardware
      • Collects voltage, current, temperature from the MPPT
      • Sends data over I2C
      • Complete by end of term
  • MPPT if possible
  • Sensor board 
    • Hardware (New Member) 
      • IMU
      • Temperature
      • Other sensors as required by mech
      • Complete by end of term
    • Software (New Member)
      • Complete by end of term

Recruitment

  • Open houses/Club days, talk to first years about hardware/software
  • Outreach to CS people