Senior Design Proposal

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Senor Design Proposal

Submitted To: Dr. Barnicki
Submitted By: Brian Rittner
Steve Nolte
Eric Wurtz Scott Wadell

Submitted On: 01-06-2003

Table of Contents
Senor Design Proposal 1
Table of Contents 2
Detailed Specifications 3
Tier 1 Requirements of Design Project 3
Tier 2 Elements of Design Project 3
Tier 3 Elements of Design Project 3
ABET Requirements 4
Economic 4
Environmental 4
Sustainability 4
Manufacturability 4
Ethical 4
Health and Safety 4
Social 5
Alternate Project 6
The R Box 6


Detailed Specifications

Our group is part of a larger team that is developing a World War II submarine simulator for the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. We are specializing in implementing the I/O for all of the peripheral devices of the submarine simulator. This is inclusive of the analog dials and gauges that are being simulated from the Conning Tower of a submarine.

The simulator will have a tutorial to teach the users its operation. To assist in teaching how to use the simulator, the tutorial will use focus lighting to direct the user’s attention to the relative devices. This focus lighting will also be handled by our I/O group.

The specifics of our group’s responsibilities are based around a PC that will be called the Master Control. This controller will be interfaced to another PC, the control for the main simulator engine, via Ethernet and communicate by way of XML RPC. The Master Control will control all the device controllers, microcontrollers or programmable gate arrays, which in turn control the simulators peripheral devices. The bus that the controllers are on, along with the Master Control’s interface to the bus, are under the responsibilities of the I/O group as well.

Tier 1 Requirements of Design Project

1) A software interface on the Master Control to communicate with the Engine Master.
2) A software and perhaps ...