Our Gantt chart is designed to better illustrate deadlines and milestones associated with our project schedule. Through the use of this Gantt chart we are able to easily access specific tasks and phases of the project by using the search by week feature which allows you to navigate through the bar chart, showing the progress of each respective task. In order to effectively relay the importance of certain goals that are crucial to the project some progress bars have been filled in with a different color. Overall our Gantt chart has helped contribute to the efficiency of our project by visualizing the progress of our deadlines and milestones

3/12/21: The team is running slightly behind schedule as far as Gantt chart deadlines are concerned. The rectifier is all but done, however, the Boost and PCB are taking longer than expected. The team is working diligently to catch up, and believes we will be able to make up the time enough to finish on schedule. What we've learned so far is to start earlier on the PCB designs, as they take quite a lot of time.

4/23/21: The team has gotten a PCB printed, arduino finished and tested, and we have an extra load. We are still behind on the Boost Converter, but we still have a month to finish. As far as the Gantt chart goes, we are behind schedule, but we had not accounted for having all of May to finish, so this has allowed for us to create a buffer to integrate and finish. Some integration has already started with the ME team, and we have wroked out a few issues that would have effected our final product.

Testing

The team intends on running 4 major tests. Seen above are the areas we intend on testing, including basic power tests on the rectifier output as well as the boost, a step by step test verifying the MCU's algorithm, and finally a full system test. Each test setup can be seen here: