2024-08-09 Power Gen Meeting

Attendees

• @Andrew Yin

Discussion Agenda

• Competition recap:

  • MPPT

  • Array works

  • No black bodies

  • Meeting deadlines better

• Next-gen plans

  • Back body - hardware & software redesign

  • Rtos redesign

  • More integrated via SOM and Embedded Sharepoint

  • MPPT design with Matthew

    • We will continue to use matthew's mppt hardware and design, and we will be making incremental changes to make it fit our car's designs

    • For software, we will be rewriting the entire software of the MPPT, and use real time operating systems (RTOS)

• Get everyone’s life updates

• Get everyone’s project interests and what they would like to finish before school starts

• SOM and BSP and Embedded Sharepoint

Krish

• MPPT software and hardware

• the code was working until the IC that did all the CAN transmissions

• before redesigning black body A, make sure to replace CAN chip

• code - make sure multiple threads can run at the same time

• Power gen black body - is the repo that Krish posted to

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AKAFnUu08liszx0j5FHcDK-mRjdRVoMeqncLYDk3Xj0/edit

• 1:1

• action steps: get on the call

• action step: schedule meeting

• action steps: dm controls

Aleena

• mppt software & hardware

• eclipse project

• action: general MPPT boards and commercialized boards + take notes

  • explain + summarize

Tanya

• blackbodies hardware > software

• action: join the meeting with blackbody problems

• action: blackbody hardware

Tong

• Heliosphere

• curve tracer research

• action: make a rough timeline of the things

Nash

• self-hosted server

• action: initial research

  • will ask for summary

Andrew Yin

• add everyone to software channel

• send Matthew MPPT Q&A session

• ask hardy and jacob if we can do self-hosted data bases on our AMD computers (see if we can create our own profiles)

• ask krish about 1:1 and his updates to controls

matthew mppt

• needs/wants for the mppt

• feature want

• 8:30 pm cst

possible action steps

• other teams want us to do for SOM

• embedded sharepoint information

• basically information about integrating array