Week 3- Controls update and Manufacturing Plan

kwilllia 2016-2017 AFRL Thermal Orientation Test Bed

This week, our controls team started gathering the resources we need to begin development of the control system which will be used to help accurately orient our test bed. The controls team worked to solve connection issues for our UMI board and for the motor drive. Progress was also made with software development as the needed software was downloaded and updates were made with the Labview Code. The status of the controls at the end of this week is that our PCI-7332 card is connected, the UMI board is connected and powered, the Labview code is in progress and the motor is not yet responding. We also had a team meeting to plan the goals we have for this quarter and what we will do to complete them. We set the time for the weekly team meetings and manufacturing planned the times that they will meet throughout the week to complete our tasks. Beginning next week, the manufacturing team will start to reassemble the test frame so that we can assure that it works for our Air Force Research Lab Liaison. We plan to meet in the afternoons throughout the week to assemble the frame. Looking down the road, the team also is planning to modify parts on the frame such as the motor mount so that we can horizontally integrate the motor and to assure that the frame can rotate the entire 360 degrees for any test orientation. A picture of the labview schematic is included to show the progress of the software.