Helena Project Update 4

Progress

This week, work focused on the development of the Requirements Document for Senior Design and finalizing the PDR presentation for RockSat-X. I mainly focused on the Requirements Document, and did significant work on the structure and content of that document. We turned in a draft first, then flushed it out to a final document that was turned in on Friday of Week 6. I focused on the functional requirements, introduction, and structure of the paper. For the PDR presentation, we had to develop requirements and a plan to meet the requirements. There was a lot of overlap in content between PDR and the Requirements Documents, which was ideal for finishing both of these big documents in the same week. In preparation for this presentation, we had one meeting where we all went over content and one where we practiced the presentation. The final presentation for PDR (Preliminary Design Review) was at 7am on Thursday of week 6. Finally, I revised the README for this repository, so that it was more informative regarding the structure, contents, and context of this repository.

Plans

Next week will focus on finalizing major design choices and developing the technical review. The design choices that need to be finalized include the method for assigning test points and the operational modes of the arm.

Problems

There are no problems this week.