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1st Week Report During the first week our team was doing a lot of research to get familiar with the matter. In our meetings we were brainstorming about different solutions to being our robot into action. We were also figuring out what kind of material we should use, in case we should also consider the design. The material has to be a very light one and quite cheap at the same time because our budget is limited. Our team prepared an agenda with a few questions which we are going to present to our supervisors.
2nd Week Report After receiving all the documentation the teacher gave us, we started to study the different existing solutions and comparing them. Also we searched the internet for more inspiration and studied the biological creatures who could be a basis for the wanted movements. Furthermore we compared the mechanisms of the existing models, and explored our options (for example the type of power supply). In the different models we saw that the hummingbird model or the dragonfly robot were the most interesting. So we listed the pro's and con's of these two. After we decided to make a list of questions so we can make an informed decision.
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Minute: As the topics were presented to us, we got all set up in groups and afterwards we were supposed to choose one of the topics. We had short discussions with the teachers after the proposals, which made the decision easier to us
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Electronics: Motor (Power? Voltage?); Remote ; Controller between the motor and the remote? ; Wire
Body: Styrofoam
Wings: Mylar ; Leading edges/wing spurs (wood or carbon/circular or square cross section); Hinges ;
Fuselage: Carbon/wood tubes
Driving mechanism: Gearbox (Gear ratio?); Connection rods (moves the wing spurs, plastic?)
In that meeting we got a recommendation to use Pulse-width modulation (PWM) to control the speed of a DC Motor. PWM is a modulation technique that conforms the pulse duration, based on modulator signal information. Its main use is to allow the control of the power supplied to electrical devices, especially to inertial loads such as motors. The average value of voltage (and current) fed to the load is controlled by turning the switch between supply and load on and off at a fast pace. The longer the switch is on compared to the off periods, the higher the power supplied to the load is.
This is a brushless motor, we found out, that it is the most powerful motor on the market, up to 100.000 turns per Min, used in RC Cars. We think we need a micro inrunner because we want to make a small bird.
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Start | End | Task | Description | Who |
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27.02 | 28.02 | Choose a project | Talk about our skills and thinking of a project that would suit our skills | Team 3 |
28.02 | 03.03 | Get information about project | Doing research about existing electronic flying devices | Team 3 |
03.03 | 06.03 | Define the tasks | Brainstorming about what should be done and splitting up the tasks | Team 3 |
09.03. | 10.03 | Gantt chart | Downloading the program and uploading the Gantt chart in the wiki | Team 3 |
10.03 | 10.03 | Group meeting | Team 3 | |
11.03 | 14.03 | Research | Reading the documents of Manuel and outlining whats most important for us | Team 3 |
14.03 | 16.03 | Starting with the Marketing part | Research | Team 3 |
16.03 | 22.03 | Brainstorming | Deciding which type of animal we should choose | Team 3 |
20.03 | 25.03 | Reading | Studying “beginning arduino Programming”, “Arduino Internals”, “Learn Electronics with Arduino” | Team 3 |
22.03 | 25.03 | Research | Studying the components that we need for our DOVE | Team 3 |
22.03 | 22.03 | State of the arts | researching and listing all aspects of the state of the art | Team 3 |
23.03 | 25.03 | Preparing the material list | Searching for a bigger engine in electro component shops, looking for the other components that we would need for the remote controlled, bio-inspired robot | Team 3 |
25.03 | 25.03 | Sketches | Making sketches of the driving mechanism | Rauno |
26.03 | 26.03 | Material list | Upload the material list | Team 3 |
26.03 | 30.03 | Marketing Analysis | Working on the Marketing Analysis | Yvonne, Benedicte, Rauno |
26.03 | 03.04 | Sketches | Making representative sketches to visualize the intention | Benedicte |
29.03 | 29.03 | Logbook | Updating logbook | Yvonne |
31.03 | 31.03 | Marketing Analysis | uploading the Marketing Analysis | Benedicte, Yvonne |
02.04 | 02.04 | Gantt | making and uploading the Gantt Chart | Yvonne |
04.04 | 04.04 | Ethics | Ethics section | Benedicte |
05.04 | 05.04 | Introduction | Writing the introduction | Benedicte, Yvonne |
05.04 | 05.04 | Design | making frontpage and leaflet in photoshop | Benedicte |
05.04 | 05.04 | Sustainability and eco-efficiency | researching and collection possibilities | Yvonne, Rauno |
06.04 | 06.04 | Report | Putting everything together in pdf, and upload | Benedicte |
07.04 | 09.04 | Interim Presentation | Making Interim Presentation | Team 3 |
16.04 | 06.04 | Aerodynamics | Meeting with Fernando | Iain, Rauno |
24.04 | 24.04 | Aerodynamics | Meeting with Fernando | Iain, Rauno |
29.04 | 29.04 | Project Development | Updating Project Development | Rauno |
29.04 | 13.05 | Project Management | Topics 1-4,6 | Yvonne |
29.04 | 13.05 | Project Management | Topics 5,8 | Rauno |
29.04 | 13.05 | Project Management | Topics 7,9,10 | Benedicte |
01.05 | 12.05 | Marketing | Marketing Mix and rest | Yvonne |
01.05 | 07.05 | 3D | Working on the driving mechanism | Yvonne |
07.05 | 07.05 | SW | Technical drawings | Yvonne |
08.05 | 08.05 | Material List | Last version uploaded | Team 3 |
08.05 | 20.05 | Sustainability | Sustainability section | Yvonne |
15.05 | 20.05 | Sustainability | Lifecycle analysis | Rauno |
20.05 | 20.05 | Project Management | Topics 7-9 | Team 3 |
21.05 | 21.05 | Ethics | Making the presentation | Yvonne |
22.05 | 22.05 | Ethics | Presentation | Team 3 |
22.05 | 22.05 | Project Development | Shaping the foam body | Rauno, Yvonne |
23.05 | 23.05 | Aerodynamics | Meeting with Fernando to present our ideas | Rauno, Yvonne |
24.05 | 25.05 | 3D | Making the body in Solidworks | Yvonne |
27.05 | 27.05 | Communication | Feedback and comments from Ana | Benedicte, Yvonne |
28.05 | 28.05 | Materials | Visiting the Aerokit store in Espinho | Rauno, Iain |
30.05 | 31.05 | Project Development | Improvements | Rauno |
31.05 | 31.05 | Project Management | Finishing the section and sending to lecturer | Yvonne |
02.06 | 02.06 | Project Development | Electrical drawings | Iain |
03.06 | 03.06 | Project Management | Making the presentation | Yvonne |
02.06 | 12.06 | Materials | Negotiations with “middleman” to order our materials | Rauno, Iain |
11.06 | 11.06 | Gantt | Making the Gantt Chart | Yvonne |
12.06 | 12.06 | Project Management | making the presentation | Yvonne |
Report | Abstract | Iain | ||
Report | Paper | Iain | ||
09.06 | 10.06 | Poster | Designing the poster | Benedicte |
09.06 | 14.06 | Report | Formatting final report | Benedicte |
10.06 | 14.06 | Report | Correcting the language | Iain |
12.06 | 12.06 | Report | Finished Project development | Rauno |
01.06 | 07.06 | 3D | Renewing the driving mechanism in SW | Yvonne |
05.06 | 07.06 | 3D | Making the shell in SW | Benedicte |
15.06 | 16.06 | Materials | Collecting the materials from Manuel and from shops | Rauno |
17.06 | 18.06 | Final Presentation | Making the Final Presentation | Yvonne |
17.06 | 18.06 | Video | Making the video | Yvonne |
17.06 | 25.06 | Prototype | Building the prototype | Team 3 |
21.06 | 26.06 | Final Report | Correcting final report | Benedicte, Yvonne |