Autonomous Electric Hovercraft

MP10 Minutes: Meeting Week 18

Date: Monday, 12th March 2018

Time: 4:10pm – 5:00pm

Location: Suite 5, Velocity 2 (Mr Ken Mitchell’s Office)

Chairperson: Muhammad Syafiq Sufi Othman

Secretary: Muhammad Asyraf Abdul Jalil

Members:

Name Present Apologies

Mr Ken Mitchell 
Dr Milijana Odavic 
Muhammad Asyraf Abdul Jalil 
Mohammad Faiz Mohd Zaki 
Muhammad Syafiq Sufi Othman 
Muhammad Farhan Rifaie Raduan 

Meeting:

Agenda Discussion Presenter

Item

Approval of  Went through the actions for a specific task on the last meeting Muhammad
minutes of that need to be done. Syafiq Sufi
previous  All actions from the previous meeting minutes have been covered Othman
meeting and the minutes approved.

Overall  Total expenditure is the same as the last year which is Muhammad
orders approximately £143.21. Syafiq Sufi
update Othman

Project Hovercraft steering system & obstacle avoidance system Mohammad

progress  Steering system which consists of sensors, side motors and Faiz Mohd
rudder has been assembled. Zaki &
 A demonstration video was shown during the meeting. Muhammad
 Need more sensors because there was a problem when Syafiq Sufi
avoiding obstacle as the current sensors could not provide Othman
enough detection.
 Need a replacement for one of the sensors since there was
some faulty.
 Need to check whether the 5V supply from the Arduino is
consistent or not because it may affect the sensors
performance.
 Autonomous Electric Hovercraft

Action items [Faiz Zaki & Sufi Othman]

 Add 3 more sensors to the hovercraft.

Battery monitoring system Muhammad

1. Showed the waveforms obtained to Mr Ken and Dr Milijana. Asyraf Abdul
2. Need to know how the drive circuit of the motor look like. Jalil
3. Waveforms look really noisy and need to consider any
interference from other things like mobile phone signals.
4. Need to know what signal were sent and why.
5. Waveforms look unusual.
6. Need improvement on the way of taking measurements by
using the oscilloscope.
7.

Navigation system Muhammad

1. Made improvement to the GPS GSM and Magnetometer. Farhan Rifaie
2. There was a problem when combining GPS and Raduan
Magnetometer which probably caused by mixing of library.
3. But a few changes were done to the code and correct results
were obtained.
4. Heading angle, initial coordinates, final coordinates and the
distance between two coordinates successfully send to the
phone.
Action items [Farhan Raduan]
 Combine the navigation system with the control system.

Any other  Could design a circuit board to properly arrange everything on All
business the hovercraft.
 Make sure the battery does not block the airflow.
 Logbook need to be assessed next meeting.

Other All members Group

actions  Demonstrate the hovercraft can move along the corridor by
arising avoiding the obstacle for example a box and continue its path
back. (before Spring break)

Next 1. Monday, 19th March 2018 All

meeting 2. Same calendar invitation with specific time and venue need
to be sent to all group members and supervisors.