Robotic Football Group E1 Jesse Brawer Zach Eberbach Rob Mineo Laura Peveler Susan Sinclair

Previous Week’s Action Items Item 1: Established Design Requirements – Differentiated between robot design requirements and competition design requirements. – Considered the effects of the design requirements as limits on the design space. – Translated requirements into a “House of Quality”. – Composed formal memo highlighting the design requirements.

Previous Week’s Action Items Item 2: Developed Individual Design Concept – Sketched individual solutions to design requirements. – Described ideas in internal engineering memos. – Evaluated strengths and weaknesses of individual concepts as a team. – Highlighted potentially successful aspects of each design.

Current Status of Concept Status of the design – Project Definition and Planning Stage. – Established design requirements which set the scale of the project. The project is “on-schedule” – Satisfied deliverable deadlines. – Scheduled meetings with industry mentors. – Taking the first “big step”.

Next Week’s Action Items Item 1: Define Preliminary Concept – Integrate strong ideas from individual concepts to advance the team’s design concept. – Initiate a working sketch of the design concept. Item 2: Begin Website Development – Research web-building software. – Decide the format of the website and any important documentation to include.

Next Week’s Action Items Item 3: Identify Trade Study Topics – Anticipate potential problems. – Compare multiple design solutions.