Title:   Project 4: Primate Response

Names:  Team Members: Corey Arnold, Mike Keller, Mike Mussallem, and Braden Rudolph. Client: Andy Roberts, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Medical Physics.

Date:  5/1 – 5/7

Problem Statement: To build a cage-mounted or wall mounted device for the quantitation of both fast (startle) and general motion and activity of the rhesus monkey that is also able to accommodate current cage dimensions, record data remotely and quantitate motion regardless of the monkey's position in the cage.

Restatement of Team Goals:

· To drill the holes and get in contact with AMTI.

Summary of Accomplishments:

· We finished drilling our holes in the box/plate.

· We attached the box to the plate.

· We also attached the plate to the transducer

Statement of Team Goals:

· To finish writing our report and to get our presentation together.

Schedule:

WEEK	DATE	LECTURE TOPIC	ACTIVITIES
1	7-Sep	Intro and course expectations	Form teams, select project, contact client
2	14-Sep	Overview of the design process	Literature search, meet with client
3	21-Sep	PDS	Develop project understanding and PDS
4	28-Sep	Oral presentation guidelines	Brainstorm
5	5-Oct	Peer review of report drafts	Work on presentations, Advisor review of notebooks
6	12-Oct	Oral presentations	Hand in written report
7	19-Oct		Decide on final design
8	26-Oct		Work on design
9	2-Nov		Work on design
10	9-Nov	Ethics	Work on design
11	16-Nov		Work on design
12	23-Nov	Thanksgiving	Work on design
13	30-Nov		Work on design
14	7-Dec		Work on design
15	14-Dec	Final presentations	Hand in written report and notebook
17	Dec 17-21		Final meetings with advisors

Difficulties:

· Getting our inverse matrix equation into excel in order to give us accurate force and moment measurement.s

Activities: On Friday we went down to lab and drilled out holes in our box and plate. Corey called AMTI and talked to an engineer who was familiar with the our transducer. He said we should use the inverse matrix that is located in the book in order to minimize cross-talk error that our machine had been putting out. On Saturday Mike M., Braden, and Corey went down to the Waisman center again to continue our work. Mike M. and Corey went down again on Sunday.

Weekly Time (In Team):

· Going to the Waisman center: 6 hrs

· Weekly Total: 6 hrs.

· Cumulative: 18.5 hrs.

Individual Time (Corey):

· Talking to AMTI .5 hrs

· Drilling and trying to understand the matrix: 7 hrs

· Total: 7.5 hr

· Cumulative: 32 hr

Individual Time (Mike K):

· Drilling and trying to understand the matrix: 7.5 hrs

· Total 7.5 hr

· Cumulative: 30.5 hr

Individual Time (Mike M):

· Drilling and trying to understand the matrix: 4 hrs

· Total: 4 hr

· Cumulative: 27 hr

Individual Time (Braden):

· Drilling and trying to understand the matrix: 5 hrs

· Total: 5 hr

· Cumulative: 27 hr