School of Engineering and Digital Arts
EL671 Production Technology
Assignment 1 - 2014
Navisen Naigum (NN92) Thursday Week 7, 13th November 2014
Contents
Product Specification and Design 3
3rd Year project brief overview 3
Flight Controller 3
Frames 3
Motors 3
Power Management 3
Draft Technical Specification and summary of Project 4
Flight Controller Programming 4
Voltage and Current 4
Cost 4
Time 4
Key Design Metrics 5
New Products Introductions (NPI) 5
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 5
On time and complete shipments (OTCS) 5
Percentage of Products in Compliance 5
Cost of Quality (COQ) 5
Primary Belbin Team Role 5
Co-ordinator 5
Why team dynamics are important in a design environment 6
Product Qualification Testing 7
Contrast and Comparison of Domestic and Military Product 7
Manufacturing Technologies 8
Objectives for PCB design process 8
Documentation and Data 8
Assembly 8
Testing 8
Surface Mount Reflow soldering process 8
Product Specification and Design
3rd Year project brief overview
This project aims to develop a quadcopter able to autonomously fly while avoiding fixed and moving obstacles using ultrasonic and infrared proximity sensors. A quadcopter is an unmanned flying vehicle with four motors in a cross arrangement. It is expected that the corresponding controller unit, integrating motor control, based on an Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU), as well as the sensor modules, will be developed using the Atmega-based Arduino platform.
To change the world is an impossible goal, but to change the world around you is something anyone can do, ultimately leading to a ripple and changing the world further. My involvements in my community, family and job have taught me how to be an asset to society, making a difference in other’s lives.
National Technical Honor Society is a prestigious, nationally recognized organization whose members display tremendous attributes such as skill, honesty, service, leadership, and responsibility. Skill is having the ability to do something well, or with expertise. I display this attribute in all activities I participate in, such as golf, and DECA. I have been the golf team’s captain for the past two seasons. In DECA, I am the junior DECA class treasurer, as well as a State level competition, top ten qualifier. Another quality NTHS members hold is honesty, or being sincere, and not being deceitful, as well as having integrity. For my role as treasurer in DECA, I am always held to the expectation to be completely honest, handling all money that
It’s the day of an important final that could either make or break your grade. You have been driving around for thirty minutes looking for a place to park. Glancing at the clock that shows you only have ten minutes left before the test starts, panic begins to rise and you could feel tears forming behind your eyes. With no other choices left, you decide to look for a spot along the street. After parking blocks away from campus, you take off running at full speed, hoping that your professor is a forgiving and understanding person.
Where do I picture myself in ten years? The year is 2025. I might not have a flying car or live underwater, but I know I will be a businesswoman.
Dronetech is a new company in the drone navigation industry and since it was founded, it has been able to develop a standard operating procedure that has been largely responsible for the identification, acquisition, and transfer of knowledge between the different sections of the company’s network. Because of the skill displayed by its management when handling diverse issues the company has been able to develop a clientele which in such diverse institutions in such a short time, where other companies take years to achieve the same. The vision of Dronetech is to generate an
Recognizing the need for a self-piloting and hands-free aerial and underwater video UAV the Hydro Drone was created. The Hydro Drone works as a UAV in the air and underwater, circling or following a small 2” homing beacon. The strengths of the Hydro Drone are the self-piloting and waterproof attributes of the device. A weakness is the price of the Hydro Drone being $2,500 is nearly double the cost of the top selling DJI phantom
Henry Larsen, director of engineering at Scientific Engineering Corporation (SEC) is the sponsor of a new project to provide qualification and production of Shuttle Launch Booster components, dubbed “Orion Shield.” Henry, as the project sponsor, has chosen to appoint Gary Allison, a mechanical engineer, with the position of project manager, despite Gary’s inexperience in the field of project management. This appointment was supposedly due to Gary’s technical knowledge, for which Henry proposed he would rely upon, and touted by Henry as being a great step in Gary’s career. Due to Gary’s inattention of Henry’s comments during the initial meeting regarding Gary’s appointment as the project manager, Gary failed to realize that
Helicopter is known for being extremely challenging to fly. The helicopter flight controls enables the pilot to attain a controlled flight. The flight controls differ drastically when compared to the fixed wing aircraft. The advancement in flight controls namely fly-by-wire system has resulted in reducing the complexity of the system. The state of the art fly-by-wire system has resulted in increasing the performance and at the same time reduces the workload of a pilot. The four main controls include - collective pitch control, cyclic pitch control, throttle control and anti-torque pedals. The employment of fly-by-wire has thus paved way for reduction in weight whilst providing more space for comfort and effortless handling. The commercial helicopter are beginning to utilize the fly-by-wire technology after being tried and tested by fixed wing aircraft and military helicopter. The goal of this technical essay is to provide an overview of the evolution helicopter flight controls from the earlier complex analog phase to the present simplified digital phase.
Etienne Oehmichen successfully built the first quadrotor in 1922 called the Oehmichen No. 2. A single 120 horsepower engine powered the four rotors of this machine. However, due to a lack of control of individual rotors, the altitude and orientation could not be varied. To combat this issue, four additional propellers were attached to better direct the movement of the quadrotor [3]. Modern quadcopters do not rely on additional propellers to maneuver themselves. Instead, each rotor can be manipulated to perform virtually any aerial move.
By 2050 the world will need 6-7 cubic miles of oil. This is the equivalent to 28 gorge dams, 728 coal fired plants, 364 nuclear power plants, 229,550 wind turbines, or 638,750,000 solar panels. The world will also need clean water for 9 billion people. To make this happen engineers around the world will have to come together to maintain that much energy by 2050. Computer Scientists will be a major part in this process. Computer Science is very unique because of how many job fields there are, what computer scientists work on, and how computer scientists improve the daily lives for others.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used by the military for many kinds of missions, like reconnaissance, scouting and carrying out armed attacks. Due to commercialization however, UAVs have now entered the market and are being used for many civil applications, such as surveying, aerial surveillance, motion picture filmmaking, scientific research as well as firefighting, which is what I will be examining in this paper.
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Lostcause secondary school of computing and the Arts has asked us to design a new computer class room to support both subjects of computing and arts, and since both arts and computing are both excellent standard, we would need to match its excellent status. This would have a room where half of the room which would be specialised in both specified, where if it was for arts, there would be added software like Photoshop, and other editing software. I would say having one half of the room for arts and the other half computing make sense because students will know where to find themselves for specified subjects. Or they can be mixed but as long as there is specific software being added.
Lostcause secondary school of computing and the Arts has asked us to design a new computer class room to support both subjects of computing and arts, and since both arts and computing are both excellent standard, we would need to match its excellent status. This would have a room where half of the room which would be specialised in both specified, where if it was for arts, there would be added software like photoshop, and other editing software. I would say having one half of the room for arts and the other half computing make sense because students will know where to find themselves for specified subjects. Or they can be mixed but as long as there is specific software being added.