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=== Project GOTChA chart ===

This quad chart is a first draft "snapshot" of the planned activities for the term, at a high level. This information is presented here in the form of a [[GOTChA_Chart_Background | GOTChA chart]].

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==== Goals ====
* Build an integrated team of Caltech Undergraduates, Graduates, and JPL Engineers that can win the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge
* Complete the design development phase of the Solar Decathlon competition and submit design documents on time
* Evaluate and explore options for providing some technology ''sizzle'' in the system design
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==== Technical Challenges ====
* Bring 20+ new Caltech students from diverse backgrounds and skill levels up to speed quickly
* Integration of JPL and Caltech activities (people, goals, schedule, deliverables)
* Many existing baseline designs are not very developed; need more work and re-validation
* Some subsystems have no baseline design
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==== Objectives ====
* Assign students to subsystems and teams, with linkages between teams with overlapping functionality or interfaces
* For subsystems with existing baseline designs:
** Revalidate the baseline design computations and verify that baseline can achieve maximum points for relevant competition(s)
** Communicate and agree on specifications and choices with IPT and JPL teams
** Perform model-based analysis of system performance in a form that can be used for trade-off studies
** Document the baseline design in a manner that is compatible with design development phase deliverable
** Evaluate technology options that can be incorporated into our design and perform cost analysis for each
* For subsystems without existing baseline designs:
** Analyze options design with performance, cost, electrical load, thermal load estimates
** Establish a baseline design that can achieve maximum points for relevant competition(s), in agreement with IPT and JPL teams
** Document the baseline design in a manner that is compatible with design development phase deliverable
* Develop and maintain system-level cost and energy budgets and use these to verify ability to maximize points on engineering-driven competitions
** Provide a design capable of full capability (max points)
** Provide a design capable of 90% max points on worst case
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==== Approach ====
* Analyze, document, and cost a baseline solution
* Schedule planning event with Caltech + JPL to help people meet each other and align goals, milestones and schedule
* Make use of the project wikis, websites, Slack, Git, etc. as a mechanism to document and enhance team communication
* Identify individual students who will be responsible for insuring good cross-project integration between appropriate groups
* Develop analytical or computational models demonstrating that specifications can be met
* Milestones
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