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Mission, Systems, & Test Division

Meeting #8: Friday, 03.18.2016
Time
: 5:05 PM - 6:00 PM (55 minutes)
Location
: CSULB, ECS 302

Minutes taken by
: Anthony Becerril

Attendees

Absent

Christine Vu (Division Manager/Pick & Place Machine)

Anthony Becerril (UFO Ab-Ducted)
Mario Ramirez (RoFi)
Xiong Lee (Pathfinder)
Don Tran (RosCo)

None

Agenda
Announcements
No current announcements

Reports
No reports

Old Business
Demonstration Overview

a. Vu
: Completed and reviewed; now to focus on CDR

New Business

Training Series: Powerpoint is attached

a. Division Management Critique

i.

Becerril
: Meetings help guide us in process and troubleshooting
projects

ii.

Ramirez
: The meetings help us in how to properly do project
documentation

iii.

Lee
: Questions were always answered

iv.

Ramirez
: Good to overlook our projects progress to double-check
us and help miss anything

v.
vi.

Tran
: I was confused on how evaluations were done

Vu
: For future reference, anything I say now will be approved with
the President and Hill to avoid confusion on what exactly we need to
do. I was sort of misinformed for the interface matrix and the
system block diagram.

b. Arduino Troubleshooting
i.

Vu
: I outlined some common problems for your team to watch out
for

ii.

Ramirez
: We had troubles within including libraries

iii.

Becerril
: Our team had the same problem and this slide will help

c. Arxterra Control Panel: Tran and Ramirez were able to help out using their
phones to connect to the Arxterra Control Panel.
i.

Vu
: Arxterra has a youtube channel; make sure to look into it. When
you connect to your phone app, theres a Robot name, which is the
name that shows up on the Control Panel, and theres Pilot name,
which is the username that is able to control the robot.

ii.

Tran
: I was able to test the control panel on my phone which is a
rather old phone

d. Verification vs Validation
i.

Verification ~ meeting all team requirements

1. Ramirez
: when testing moving masses, how would you
quantify it?
a.

ii.

Vu

: I would discuss with Hill on testing it.

Validation ~ functions and features working properly

1. Becerril
: When blogposting for validation/verification is there
a format?
iii.

a. Vu
: A template will be provided for teams to follow

Matrices reviewed

Action Items:

a. Closed: none
b. Open: 1, 2

Action Items
#

Title/Description

Assigned
To

Start
Date

Due
Date

Update
Requirements

Test Procedure
Submission

Status

All

3/18/16

3/23/16

Open

Add all
requirements to
matrix and email

All

3/18/16

3/23/16

Open

Do one to become
familiar with them
for other tests

Next Weeks Agenda

Meeting date: Friday, March 25th
Update on Bluetooth
Update on Arduino tabs and libraries
Go over Verification and Validation
Prepare for CDR

Meeting Adjourned - 6:00 PM

Minutes reviewed & approved by division manager:
Christine Vu

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