Agenda and Actions

Welcome to the Agenda and Actions page. This is a Catalogue of different meetings and the items that we are to discuss and actions from these to be undertaken for the following meet. These meets are for design engineering students as a means to improve on work and help progress our projects. These meets also allowed for feedback from lecturers and fellow students.

We used the Agendas and actions to keep track of what was to be done, progress in the projects and to help plan them out. An alternative  was to make to-do lists. This may not have been as effective because it may take longer to get through and you may not cover everything. By making agendas you have less targets to meet and any one time, making it more manageable. However, a to-do list may be favoured as you are capable of seeing all completed and incomplete task in one place making it easier to understand.

Having more regular meets is another alternative. this would allow for more constant feedback from everyone however it may result in not much progress since you may be constantly improving the same tasks. it may also not have been possible due to different schedules and time tables.

 

Agenda 03/05/2022 

  1. Discuss about hand in dates and everything needed 
  2. Present decision matrix and improved concepts 
  3. Present flow chart 
  4. Present functioning colour detector 
  5. Discuss BREAM work and issues. 
  6. Speak about my drawing machine project on website 

Actions:

  1. Make changes and improvements to the web page.
  2. add all work to website.
  3. update all pages with correct referencing

Agenda 05/04/2022 

  1. Present updated concepts 
  2. Discuss and present full multiple regression and success chance 
  3. Present current work on multimeter page 
  4. Discuss new questionnaire results and what to do with them 

Actions:

  1. Make flowchart for multiple regression
  2. Start on technical report for multiple regression and RBG colour values
  3. Update concepts and add colour (work on decision matrix)
  4. Implement checking system and multiple regression into Arduino build

Agenda 29/03/2022 

  1. Present systems requirements for blind sensor aid solutions 
  2. Present concepts and explain 
  3. Present further work on multiple regression 
  4. All values obtained and the scale used 
  5. Discoveries and success chance 
  6. Patterns I have found and how they can be used in a checking system for more accuracy in prediction 
  7. Discuss implementing check system into current Arduino build 
  8. Discuss the elimination of distance and brightness for more accuracy, within concept designs and the multiple regression  

Actions:

  1. Make concepts more presentable
  2. Work on a decision matrix
  3. Finish up checking system for multiple regression (bench mark for existing design, acceptable and ideal percent succession)
  4. Start on technical report for RGB values and multiple regression (TCS3200 colour sensor tests)

Agenda 22/03/2022 

  1. Present Website 
  2. Discuss decision matrix and website  
  3. Present completed CAD concept 
  4. Present current progress of multiple regression 
  5. Discuss Fritzing issue. 
  6. Discuss Masters, XE500 and others concerns or queries 

Actions: 

  1. Gain some more tests for multiple regression
  2. Test current multiple regression to see how successfully it can predict colours.
  3. Come up with some concepts and work on features for an actual handheld device for the blind sensor project
  4. Update website, mapping, Gantt chart and others

Agenda 14/03/2022 

  1. Present partially functioning colour detector that displays correct colour. 
  2. Present displayed colour work on website. 
  3. Present tensile testing poster changes. 
  4. Present Solidworks CAD concept model for XE521 module. 
  5. Discuss modules and project concerns if any. 

Actions:

  • Colour detector – adjust read time so that a new colour shows on LCD faster (not every 2 seconds, perhaps 100ms) 
  • Colour detector – try to have the system register orange, purple and yellow 
  • Average RGB values and see if anything happens 
  • Multiple regression 
  • Website – Arduino code, downloadable file, write the state of that code in case you need to backtrack 
  • Arduino wiring circuit diagram (fritzing – can produce a PCB from the setup)  
  • Try to communicate XE521 concept 

Agenda 7/03/2022 (Chair for this meet)

  1. Present URS and context work 
  2. Present updated Gantt chart and mapping 
  3. Present new module pages on website 
  4. Present plan 
  5. Discuss issues with XE500 module 

Actions:

  • Discuss with XE500 group and get everything clarified (what does the team need?) (Get to know your group more, team bonding)
  • Try and meet with XE500 group (a pleasant, functional group)

Agenda 8/02/2022 

  1. Presentation website and current progress with it 
  2. Discuss first response to questionnaire 
  3. Discuss and present all in one excel 

Agenda 10/01/2022

  1. Presentation discussion
  2. Present RGB graphs made. Discuss improvements that may be needed
  3. Present tensile testing poster – improvements that could be made.
  4. Discuss cost model/costings comparison spreadsheet.
  5. Discuss questionnaire distribution delays 

Actions: 

  • Improve and work upon Cost model and make pareto histogram to go with it. 
  • Update mapping, gantt chart, website and plan 
  • Make amendments and improvements to poster 
  • Look at and try machine learning 
  • Start on all in one excel 
  • Start on second poster 

Agenda 13/12/2021  (Chair: actions and minutes this week)

  1. Discuss mapping, Gantt chart and webpage/blog
  2. Present current functioning incomplete basic colour detector
  3. Discuss changes made and calibration
  4. Present amended questionnaire

Actions: 

  1. Amend final parts of questionnaire
  2. Add to mapping (be more specific)
  3. Continue with basic colour detector build –display named colour and alter arduino numbers
  4. Update map, gantt chart, plan and blog
  5. Make excel spreadsheet with sensor distance and colour value.  

Agenda 06/12/2021

  1. Present functioning colour detector.
  2. Discuss problems that the colour detector currently has and solutions to them. Also factors that can alter the output of the device.
  3. Present updated plan and discuss further improvements to it.
  4. Discuss progress and present website/blog.

Actions:

  1. Look into machine learning for sensor and microcontrollers – Tensor, lego mindstorm sensor.
  2. Update map, plan and blog.
  3. Make amendments to questionnaire.
  4. Calibration to arduino, and add a switch or button to arduino build

Agenda 29/11/2021

  1. Present updated questionnaire
  2. Discuss improvements
  3. Discuss use of planning tools
  4. Discuss progress against plan – update needed?

Actions:

  1. Make amendments to questionnaire from today’s discussion
  2. build basic colour detector – use fritzing to show wiring diagram
  3. update blog
  4. check in with plan and update it