July 16th, 2019 Meeting Notes

Owned by Clarke Vandenhoven (Deactivated)
Last updated: Sept 03, 2021 by Michael Shiozaki

Agenda:

  • Clarke: Where are we at?
    • What do we have:
      • A model that takes car paramaters and route elevation and outputs a velocity profile that is "optimized"
      • A model that calculates the energy requirement of a given route (feeds into above model)
      • A model that calculates our solar cell efficiency given their temperature
      • A model that calculates the expected solar energy of a flat plate over the course of a day
    • What are we working on:
      • Modeling the ASC route (Connor)
      • Motor torque requirements and modeling incorporating that torque (Connor + Clarke) 
      • Low power losses (Umar)
      • Noise reduction in the outputted velocity (Chris)
      • SOC modelling for XIV (Micah)
    • Major issues:
      • Data certainty (getting good + accurate CdA & Crrs)
      • Model Usability (currently only gives us a graph that doesn't mean much to drivers)
        • Target velocity on the dashboard as a number ( on the driver display)
          • Pedal commands
          • Velocity profile to trace
          • Elevation profile on the dashboard
          • SOC on the dashboard 
          • Power usage + Power generation
      • Firmware and Telemetry Integration
        • Clarke & Aaron & Becca & Micah (worse Micah) and anyone who wants to come
      • Lack of Documentation
        • We want a source of knowledge and expectations that isn't Clarke
        • Before implementation
          • Clear tickets
          • Work split up
          • Requirements
        • After implementation
          • Add to confluence page 
          • Describe our codes usage
          • Define our usage and expected results
      • Task definition (tasks are too large and need to be split up + have more frequent meeting to check progress)
        • Fixed? by above
        • Jira usage should be updated 
        • Github integration
      • Lack of testing requirements and definitions
      • Model + algorithm efficiency
        • Investigation on model efficiency improvement
      • Style Linter (Clarke Vandenhoven (Deactivated))
        • Just to keep our code more readable 
    • Things that can be worked on now:
      • Writing good documentation + tests 
      • Documentation
      • Onboarding
      • Waterloo leadership thoughts
    • Future?
      • Full Model Integration (use solar + battery level + dynamics system to optimize)
      • Create usable model for anyone on the team
      • Lower barrier to entry for strategy
      • Build Telemetry interface
      • Live Data + model recalculation
      • Central repository of testing data
      • Aaron Tan be here we miss you
    • Dreams
      • Make model completely hands off (load up on server, make use of weather APIs, available on web server)
      • Set up farm for model building (run AWS server for optimization calculations)
      • Firmware level documentation
      • Voice Integration (Robin yelling)

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