Week 8 - Presentation 2 and Swift Nav. Meeting

In this week’s meeting, all the sub-groups of the Small-scale team were able to communicate their progress and future plans to the rest of the Spartan Superway team via Presentation 2. We were the first to present and thereafter we sat back and enjoyed being briefed on the rest of the teams’ progress. Our Presentation 2 is provided below, with more detail about each slide within each 'Speaker Notes' section, respectively.

Before we began presenting, Dr. Furman informed us that there is a group in the ME 106 class whose project involves GPS work and that a few representatives of Swift Navigation will be coming to discuss the specifics of their technology with them (The Piksi Multi, found here).  We, the controls team, were told that we could sit in on the meeting if we chose to do so because the idea of GPS for position sensing has been thrown around for Small-scale, as well as for Full-scale. The meeting was geared more towards the 106 team and questions they had on the Piksi Multi. We sat in and listened to get an overview of the product and some specifics on how it works. Although it was a very informative meeting, it didn’t really assist us in the work we’re doing, but maybe this technology can be implemented in the future.

We are currently troubleshooting to see if any nodes in  communication from the XBee to the Podcar are not functioning. Everything seems to be connected correctly (wired AND wireless connections) so after some testing, we should be able to get everything working correctly. A ticket purchase from the mobile app should send a given podcar from one station to another.


We are also currently compiling a Bill of Materials so that we can get an idea of how much funding we’ll have to provide/receive. 

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