E80 Spring 2013

Faculty

• Katherine Candler – Section 1, Parsons 2370, x-73302
• Mary Cardenas – Section 3, Parsons 2378, x-71249
• Chris Clark – Section 2, Parsons 2376, x-78856
• Peter Gough – Section 4, Parsons 2375C, x-79646
• Erik Spjut – Parsons 2373A, x-73890

Meeting Times

• Lectures – Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:35 AM to 10:50 AM in Beckman B126
• Lab Sec 1 – Monday from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Tuesday from 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM in Parsons Basement*
• Lab Sec 2 – Tuesday from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Wednesday from 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM in Parsons Basement*
• Lab Sec 3 – Wednesday from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Thursday from 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM in Parsons Basement*
• Lab Sec 4 – Thursday from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Friday from 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM in Parsons Basement*

*The lab sessions will be principally in the E80 Lab Room (P B171) and the Electronics Lab (P B172), but will also use the machine shops, the wind tunnel room, the ECF, the stockroom, and any other room or location that occurs to us, including the gravel pit and Linde Field.

Kit

Every E80 student is required to purchase a kit consisting of a rocket, parachute, solderless breadboard, wire cutter/strippers, and screwdriver. The total cost is $52, which can be paid in the Engineering Office, Parsons 2372 (Claremont Cash only). Once the fee has been paid, the kit may be picked up from the Engineering Stockroom. The assembly instructions for the rocket are different from what is in the kit, so please don't attempt to assemble the rocket until you have read the first lab and the instructions contained therein.

LabVIEW and myDAQ

For most of the labs with electronics in them we will be using the myDAQ for data acquisition. For this year we are not requiring students to purchas a myDAQ, but we will in future years.We strongly recommend that you buy your own myDAQ (with LabVIEW, Multisim, & Ultiboard, 781327-01). The biggest advantage is that you can work on your data collection VIs as part of prelab, which isn't allowed for the college-owned DAQs. You might as well be ahead on the curve and install LabVIEW on your own machine. If you choose not to buy the myDAQ with LabVIEW license, we still recommend you purchase a student version of LabVIEW and install it on your personal machine. There is also a 30-day trial complete version of LabVIEW available here. We use LabVIEW extensively in E80 and you have 7 LabVIEW assignments to complete. While LabVIEW will run on Windows, Linux, or OS X, the myDAQ and most other NI hardware only has drivers for the Windows version. Both Boot Camp and Parallels or VMware work reasonably well.

 

Text

In previous years we have recommended you get a copy of the LabVIEW text. This year we recommend you watch the LabVIEW 101 videos.

If you want a copy of the text, we recommend you get the eBook: Bishop,Robert H., Learning wth LabVIEW 2009, CourseSmart eTextbook,Prentice Hall 2010, ISBN-10: 0-13-214190-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-214190-1

We don't recommend the current or previous student edition texts that comes with the software because the version on the machines is LabVIEW 2012, and the texts all have older versions.The software is upwardly, but not downwardly compatible. You will want the same version on all of your machines.

 

Course Objectives

By the end of the course students will:

1. Demonstrate hardware and equipment skills:
   1. Demonstrate the safe and proper use of basic laboratory equipment: e.g., digital multimeter (DMM), signal generator, oscilloscope, breadboard, and analog transducers.
   2. Demonstrate the safe and proper use of computer-based and embedded-processor-based data acquisition systems.
   3. Demonstrate proper techniques for debugging/troubleshooting an experimental setup.
   4. Design, build, and fly a custom set of transducers to make engineering and/or scientific measurements.
2. Demonstrate experimental and analytical skills:
1. Demonstrate the design/planning and completion of safe experiments to answer open-ended questions.
2. Demonstrate manipulation and presentation of experimentally-obtained data to answer open-ended questions.
3. Analyze and compare the results of mathematical and computer modeling of an experiment with actual experimental results.
3. Demonstrate the beginnings of professional practice:
1. Effectively communicate in written form the design, completion, and analysis of experiments to answer open-ended questions.
2. Effectively communicate by oral presentation and Q-and-A session the design, completion, and analysis of experiments to answer open-ended questions.

The Lecture Schedule

The Lecture Schedule

Date	Tuesday	Date	Thursday
22 JAN	Flight Data Basics	24 JAN	Data Fitting and Analysis
29 JAN	LabVIEW & Matlab	31 JAN	Basic Electrical Measurements
5 FEB	Op Amps & Signal Conditioning	7 FEB	Temperature Measurements
12 FEB	Wind Tunnel & Fluid Measurements	14 FEB	Thrust Measurements & Flight Modeling
19 FEB	Inertial Measurement	21 FEB	Vibration & System ID
26 FEB	Atmospheric Science	28 FEB	Sensors & Transducers
12 MAR	Flight Hardware
9 APR	Field Operations & Safety

 

The Lab Schedule

The Lab Schedule

Week of	Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4
21 JAN				First Flight
28 JAN	First Flight	First Flight	First Flight	BEM
4 FEB	BEM	BEM	BEM	Rotation 1
11 FEB	Rotation 1	Rotation 1	Rotation 1	Rotation 2
18 FEB	Rotation 2	Rotation 2	Rotation 2	Rotation 3
25 FEB	Rotation 3	Rotation 3	Rotation 3	Rotation 4
4 MAR	Rotation 4	Rotation 4	Rotation 4	Rotation 5
11 MAR	Rotation 5	Rotation 5	Rotation 5	Propose & Design 1
18 MAR	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
25 MAR	Propose & Design 1	Propose & Design 1	Propose & Design 1	No Lab
1 APR	Propose & Design 2	Propose & Design 2	Propose & Design 2	Propose & Design 2
8 APR	Breadboard & Test	Breadboard & Test	Breadboard & Test	Breadboard & Test
15 APR	Build, Test & Launch	Build, Test & Launch	Build, Test & Launch	Build, Test & Launch
22 APR	Rebuild, Retest & Relaunch	Rebuild, Retest & Relaunch	Rebuild, Retest & Relaunch	Rebuild, Retest & Relaunch
29 APR	Write Up	Write Up	Write Up	Write Up
6 MAY	Present	Present	Present	Present

The Rotation Schedule

	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4	Team 5
Rotation 1	Temperature	Op Amps & Sig. Cond.	Static Test & Flight Model	Accel & Gyros	Wind Tunnel
Rotation 2	Wind Tunnel	Temperature	Op Amps & Sig. Cond.	Static Test & Flight Model	Accel & Gyros
Rotation 3	Accel & Gyros	Wind Tunnel	Temperature	Op Amps & Sig. Cond.	Static Test & Flight Model
Rotation 4	Static Test & Flight Model	Accel & Gyros	Wind Tunnel	Temperature	Op Amps & Sig. Cond.
Rotation 5	Op Amps & Sig. Cond.	Static Test & Flight Model	Accel & Gyros	Wind Tunnel	Temperature

 

The LabVIEW Assignment Schedule

The LabVIEW Programming Assignment Due Dates

Due Date	Number	Name
1 FEB 2013	1	Read In Data File
8 FEB 2013	2	Write Out Data File
15 FEB 2013	3	Create Sub-VIs
22 FEB 2013	4	Use a For Loop
1 MAR 2013	5	Use a While Loop and Shift Register
8 MAR 2013	6	Control Execution Timing
15 MAR 2013	7	Frequency Response Function

 

Motor Testing Schedule (Subject to Change)

Date	Team	Motors
7-FEB-13	S4T3	F62T-M, G77R-M
11-FEB-13	S1T3	F62T-M, G79W-M
12-FEB-13	S2T3	F62T-M, G77R-M
13-FEB-13	S3T3	F62T-M, G79W-M
14-FEB-13	S4T4	F37W-M, G77R-M
18-FEB-13	S1T4	N/A
19-FEB-13	S2T4	F62T-M, G79W-M
20-FEB-13	S3T4	N/A
21-FEB-13	S4T5	F62T-M, G77R-M
25-FEB-13	S1T5	N/A
26-FEB-13	S2T5	N/A
27-FEB-13	S3T5	N/A
28-FEB-13	S4T1	F62T-M, G79W-M
4-MAR-13	S1T1	F62T-M, G77R-M
5-MAR-13	S2T1	F62T-M, G79W-M
6-MAR-13	S3T1	F62T-M, G77R-M
7-MAR-13	S4T2	F62T-M, G79W-M
11-MAR-13	S1T2	F62T-M, G77R-M
12-MAR-13	S2T2	F62T-M, G79W-M
13-MAR-13	S3T2	F62T-M, G77R-M

Thrust curves and data for the motors can be found in the rocket motor package, on Aerotech's website in the products PDF, or at thrustcurve.org.

Flight Schedule for April 2013

20-APR-2013			27-APR-2013
Sec 1 Team 1	H170M-14A, H165R-M		Sec 1 Team 1	H148R-M, H123W-M
Sec 1 Team 2	G79W-M, G75J-M		Sec 1 Team 2	H165R-M, G75J-M
Sec 1 Team 3	I245G-M, H123W-M		Sec 1 Team 3	I161W-M, H238T-M
Sec 2 Team 1	H128W-M, H128W-M		Sec 2 Team 1	H128W-M, H128W-M
Sec 2 Team 2	H165R-M, G77R-M		Sec 2 Team 2	H165R-M, H128W-M
Sec 2 Team 3	H73J-M, H238T-M		Sec 2 Team 3	I245G-M, H73J-M
Sec 2 Team 4	H128W-M, G77R-M		Sec 2 Team 4	H128W-M, G77R-M
Sec 3 Team 1	H238T-M, H165R-M		Sec 3 Team 1	I245G-M, H242T-M
Sec 3 Team 2	H128W-M, G77R-M		Sec 3 Team 2	H165R-M, G79W-M
Sec 3 Team 3	I357T-M, H242T-M		Sec 3 Team 3	H170M-14A, H165R-M
Sec 4 Team 1	H128W-M, G77R-M		Sec 4 Team 1	H128W-M, G77R-M
Sec 4 Team 2	H165R-M, H165R-M		Sec 4 Team 2	G77R-M, G77R-M
Sec 4 Team 3	I245G-M, H178DM-14A		Sec 4 Team 3	H178DM-14A, H165R-M
Sec 4 Team 4	I218R-M, H148R-M		Sec 4 Team 4	I218R-M, H238T-M
Sec 4 Team 5	I161W-M, H128W-M		Sec 4 Team 5	I357T-M, H238T-M

The list of available motors is here. If your motors are not already pre-assembled, we'll want you to assemble and label your two motors for a given week in the lab session preceeding the flight day.

Important: You need to check the flight characteristics of your finished rocket in Rocksim or Open Rocket with the motors you will fly. The "M" delay is approximately 10 seconds.We will have a limited number of "L" delays, which burn for approximately 14 seconds. We can't modify the delays to burn longer, but we can modify them to burn shorter. You may want to shorten the delay so that the 'chute pops out at apogee and not back on the ground. It's easiest to modify the delay time before you assemble the motor.