Update 4/13/19

After our second presentation, we have made great strides to finishing our motor control system. We have finalized PCB designs and will be sending our design for manufacturing. The motor wiring schematic has been created and are waiting on a contactor to finish preliminary tests on the motor. We will then be able to work on controlling the speed of the motor to our needs and soon implement the system on the full scale model to run real time tests with our hardware.

3/23/19 Controls Team Update

Today, I worked on replacing connectors on the motor controller. I recrimped and connected modular connectors to their ends. With the rest of our components arriving within the next few days, I am looking to finish wiring up the controller and motor adapter so I can test to see how we can control the motor given the motor specifications. Next time, I plan on getting our relay array working with some small scale DC motors and the linear actuators to make sure everything is working with one another and that I can cut off power to vital components in case of emergency at the push of a button or pull of a lever. Myself and the team continue to test I2C bluetooth connection and are still working on some bugs that stop us from sending signals to our other components. This will be addressedd within the coming days and over break.