Weekly Progress Reports (see sidebar), the Gantt chart, and this Project Management page should be printed out before meetings with the sponsor and instructor.
All team members should be able to explain all items on the progress report.
Place a "*" at the beginning of the title of the active week Progress Report (see * in sidebar).
Project Objectives
Concisely list and prioritize the project objectives and constraints
High Priority Objectives
Build an autonomous robot that will quickly map the inside of the bore without getting stuck
Second Priority Objectives
Maintaining the plane of the laser perpendicular to the floor of the bore.
Other Constraints and Issues
Size of the robot
Energy efficient
Quality of the images
Weight of components
Accurately move straight down barrel
Know its location inside the barrel
WOW Design Solution
Function for all sizes of bores
Risk Reduction Strategy
Build small scale model of railgun barrel and RC car to test various path conditions and car models
Test different kinds of sludge inside barrel
Test different RC car models
Intermediate Milestones
Concept of design
Proof of concept
Building actual robot