156B Week 7

Overview of Status of Analysis, Design, Fabrication, Tests, etc.

• • Hardware components of object tracking has been completed.

  • Waiting for designing and building a new arena

  • Use LED as an object to test the tracking of arena cameras

Accomplishments from Previous Week

• • Designed a acrylic cube box for the LED testing 

  • Finished laser alignment on the galvo mounting cage to find (0,0) position of galvo mirrors.

  • Finished converting from Cartesian coordinate to galvo coordinate and send the signals to DAQ (Data acquisition)

  • Integrated all code pieces together and ready for Tuesday testing (using LED). 

Goals for Next Week (list names after each item). Use specific and measurable objectives.

• • Fabricate the acrylic box to achieve LED movement  (MIngcong and Zizhao)

  • Design and build a new arena for experiment (MIngcong and Zizhao)

  • Improve based on actual test result and if minimal modification is needed.(Keren)

Sponsor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• •  Set the milestone for next week: Galvo could track LED light by next week. (2/11/2020, in person)

  • Action: Keren will works on the modification of codes to make galvo capable for tracking. 

  • Action: Zizhao and Mingcong will design some test arenas easier for LED test. 

Instructor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments  (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• • The report should be written in past tense, third person. There are grammar issues in the report and should be fixed as soon as possible. (2/11, in person)

  • Delete redundant sentences and figures in the report.  (2/11, in person)

  • All figures should be clearly labeled and captioned. (2/11, in person)

  • Action: Corrected grammar issues first and sent it to Ved to check if there are more common issues. 

Comments from Other Students in the Class (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• • None

Risks and Areas of Concern

• • Lighting condition of the arena 

Resources or Information Required but not Available

• • None

Schedule

• • Milestone: Make Galvo able to track LED lights. 

  • Update Gantt chart.

Budget (list amount spent and amount remaining)

• • Budget Spent: $ 43.98 (8.5'' * 11'' Acrylic sheets)

Progress on Report and Webpage

• • Revision on the first draft of final report according to the feedback from instructor and TA

  • Update the weekly internal website.