Project Specification
A. Project Description and Methodology:
The aims of the project is to develop a feedback control experiment with Ipad for year two student as well as authoring a lab script. The main idea is to make Ipad work as a controller in the feedback control system. It will connect with some hardware like motor and sensor, developing to a feedback control system. My ideas for this experiment is to design a sunlight tracking system for the solar cells. In this system, some motors work as actuator and some light sensors send feedback to controller (Ipad). This system can adjust its angle of solar cell to get the most sunlight
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B. Project Tasks and Milestones:
Tasks |
· Learning the Objective C language.
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· Design or buy a completed model of sun tracker.
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· Building sensors, motor and power supply on the model.(Plant)
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· Connecting Ipad to hardware: apple dock to USB, then to the circuit of motor and sensors
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· Develop the application for this system
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· Test the whole system
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· Use a solar cell as a power supply (optional)
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Milestones
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· Finish the hardware part assembling 1-11-2012
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· Control the motors by ipad manually and get value from sensors 20-11-2012
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· Application interface 20-12-2012
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· Finish the application to control the system automatically 1-2-2013
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C. Project Deliverables:
· Application on Ipad to realize the feedback control
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· The hardware part of this feedback control system: Solar tracker
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· Laboratory script
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· Some Test for students and upload the result to Vital
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D. Project Rationale and Industrial Relevance.
· Develop a experiment for year two students with Ipad, which is easy to mark and
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Upload results
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· The sunlight tracking system may be used in solar cells or solar water heater
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· This is a new attempt of using ipad work as a processor in our experiments and
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projects, which may bring us some new inspiration
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