EE 382 - Introduction to Design

Spring 2016 Schedule:	TR 2:00pm-5:00pm in Workman 187
Instructors:	Dr. Kevin Wedeward Office: Workman 221, Phone: 575-835-5708, email: wedeward@ee.nmt.edu Dr. Aly El-Osery Office: Workman 207, Phone: 575-835-6432, email: elosery@ee.nmt.edu

Course Objectives

Learn an approach to design, project management and team work.
Learn to use spec sheets and design according to available components.
Learn how to write technical documents and give presentations.
Perform various case studies.
Integrate skills learned and experiments used in previous courses into a creative design process.

Project Objective

Develop a cost effective, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based, remote sensing system to accurately determine features needed for an inventory of paved and unpaved roads.

Project Description

Monitoring of road conditions is an essential component in ensuring their quality and safety. Timely collection of relevant data provide means for identification and rectification of road deformations. The Federal Highway Adminstration (FHWA) requires all states to provide inventory information for all public road mileage in accordance with the High Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) Field Manual. Unfortunately, current systems that provide the required measurements are highly expensive. Furthermore, monitoring unpaved roads becomes even more prohibitively expensive .

Specific goals include identification of relevant metrics for road assessment achievable through the use of UAVs, identification of required sensors to obtain those metrics, collection of accurate navigation information, and minimizing power consumption to prolong operation time.

Project Phase I Goals

The focus of this semester is to

perform analyses and trades to demonstrate concept feasibility,
develop a prototype to demonstrate the ability to measure a subset of the relevant metrics for road assessment, and
provide a preliminary demonstration of the proposed system

Tentative Project Groups

The whole class will work as one team with groups focusing on different aspects. A possible break down of the groups is listed below with each group being 4 students

Systems group
- Manages the different teams and the project as a whole
- Handles scheduling and purchasing
- Interacts with all teams and vets specifications
- Handles integration of documents
- Power regulation and management
- Common processing architecture
- Integration of all the codes for the different subsystem

Two Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) groups
- Select appropriate GPS module
- Select appropriate inertial sensors
- Develop code to provide location and attitude of the UAV
- Provide timing signals to other systems for data logging

Two sensors groups
- Select sensors to characterize the road
- Develop necessary interfacing circuits to the microcontroller
- Develop timestamped data collection code
- Each group must be unique in the feature they extract

Data analysis/Testing group
- Responsible for data collection and storage
- Develop and implement a user interface for downloading, archiving and displaying collected data
- Responsible for offline processing and analysis of collected data
- Testing and evaluation of the entire system

Key Reference

Highway Performance Monitoring System Field Manual

Course Prerequisites

EE308 & EE308L (Microcontrollers)
EE321 & EE321L (Analog Electronics)
EE333 (Electricity and Magnetism)
EE341 (Continuous-Time Signals and Systems)
Declared electrical engineering as a major

Topic Prerequisites

In-depth knowledge of microcontrollers.
Analog and digital circuit design.
Principles of linear time-invariant systems.
Proficiency in C programming.

Goals

Students will

work in teams,
implement key aspects of a design process,
design and build a prototype electronic system,
conduct experiments to characterize and verify design,
communicate aspects of the design process through oral presentations and written documents, and
manage the design process.

Reference Texts

see resources page

Grading

Individual grades will be assigned; each student must participate in each graded-component of the course to pass the course.

Survey Paper	Feb 2nd	10%
Statement of Work	Feb 12th	10%
Conceptual Design Review:	Mar 3rd	10%
Peer Evaluation:	Mar 22nd
Midterm Functionality & Design:	Mar 24th	20%
Peer Evaluation:	Apr 26th
Final Functionality & Design:	Apr 28th	30%
Final Presentation:	May 5th	10%
Final Report (including electronic version):	May 12th	10%

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