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| 27&nbsp;Sep&nbsp;(M)
 
| [[Media:L1_kickoff-27Sep10.pdf|Organizational meeting]]
 
* Reed: Solar Decathlon overview [15 min]
 
* Fei: Baseline overview [15 min]
 
* Richard: CS/EE/ME 75 organization [20 min]
 
* Q&A [5 min]
 
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* Submit [[Media:cem75_signup-fa10.pdf|signup and scheduling sheet]] by Wed @ noon to box outside 109 Steele
 
* Read SD rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
 
* Team assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Thursday (30 Sep)
 
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2010 Homework 1|HW #1]]
 
* SD competition rules
 
* Subsystem baseline description
 
* Wiki user page creation
 
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| 4 Oct (M)
 
| Project schedule
 
* Overall SD schedule [Reed]
 
* SCI-Arc/Caltech master schedule for fall [Reed]
 
* GOTChA charts [Richard]
 
* Milestone "party" (9 Oct?)
 
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Team meetings start.  Joint scheduling event with Sci-Arc on 9 Oct (?)
 
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2010 Homework 2|HW #2]]: Team schedules, subsystem GOTChAs
 
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| 11 Oct (M)*
 
| System specifications
 
* Baseline specifications [Fei]
 
* Documentation format [Reed]
 
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| HW #3: Project specifications
 
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| 18 Oct (M)
 
| System modeling
 
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| HW #4: Baseline model and analysis
 
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| 25&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;(M)*
 
| Design review process
 
| Design reviews (midterms)
 
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| 1 Nov (M)
 
| Team presentation
 
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| 8 Nov (M)*
 
| Team presentation
 
 
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| 15&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;(M)*
 
| Team presentation
 
 
| Design review
 
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| 22 Nov (M)
 
| Project review
 
| Building information model, design drawings and project manual due
 
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| 29 Nov (M)
 
| Lessons learned and plans for second term
 
 
| Project documentation due (end of finals)
 
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Revision as of 13:27, 19 October 2018

Project GOTChA chart

This quad chart gives a snapshot of the planned activities for the term, at a high level. This information is presented here in the form of a GOTChA chart.

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

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

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

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
    • TBD