PRE2018 4 Group6 minutes

29-04-2019

Present during meeting:

• Yannick de Jong
• Jannes van Poppelen
• Thom Smits

Absent during meeting:

• Tom Vredenbregt
• Jur Kappé

Chairman: Thom Smits Secretary: Yannick de Jong

Meetings

The first order of business, the time and place for the consequent meetings are to be determined. Thursday in the afternoon is coined and accepted by all present members of the group. The next meeting will be 02-04-2019 in the afternoon.

Goal of our project

To beun or not to beun, that is the question. Jannes asks the question if we want to focus only on writing a report, or if we want to create something physical as well. The group members present decide on creating something physical.

Topics

• Companion robot for space travel (Long term weightless travel)
• Smart roads that can adapt their configuration (amount of lanes/bike lanes and sidewalk) dependent on the situation
• Law and justice robot (Robot Judge Judy)
• Presence detection of humans in houses (motion and motionless)
• Autonomous weapons/radar systems
• Autonomous exploration robots (Deep sea, Small areas or outer space)

Assignments

• Search relevant articles for the chosen topic
• Refine the subject, objectives, and approach
• Refine the users and state-of-the-art
• Create planning (milestones, deliverables, who will do what)

02-05-2019

Present during meeting:

• Yannick de Jong
• Jannes van Poppelen
• Thom Smits
• Tom Vredenbregt
• Jur Kappé

Chairman: Thom Smits Secretary: Yannick de Jong

Thom opens the meeting at 13:11

Accepting agenda and Minutes

The agenda and minutes are accepted by the team.

Topics

The presented topics are discussed. Eventually, the team votes unanimously for the topic: Smart Roads.

Topic definition

Roads that can rearrange the lanes on the road based on the traffic driving on them. This makes roads more space efficient and can relieve congestion.

The meeting is suspended at 14:02 and reopened at 14:11.

Dividing roles

• Preliminary research: Jur
• Stocastic Processes: Tom
• Programming: Yannick
• Use koppeling: Thom
• Presenting: Jannes & Tom
• Meetings: Thom
• Report: Jannes & Tom
• Planning: Jannes

Report setup

• Abstract
• Intro
• Problem Statement
• Approach
• Results
• Conclusion
• Discussion
• Bibliography
• Appendix

The meeting is closed at 14:48

06-05-2019

Present during meeting:

• Yannick de Jong
• Jannes van Poppelen
• Thom Smits
• Tom Vredenbregt
• Jur Kappé

Chairman: Thom Smits Secretary: Yannick de Jong

The meeting is opened at 11:18 by Thom.

Accepting agenda and Minutes

Jannes notices that in the agenda on line 19 "Evualatie" should be changed to Evaluatie. After this correction, the agenda and minutes are accepted by the team.

Evaluation tutor meeting

The tutors expected a lot from us in half a week's work. To summarise, we have to find a stretch of road to model, then we need to find a dataset (Jur mentions that he has already found a dataset with data about road usage). Tom says we need to use these datasets to predict traffic so our system can react to these predictions. During the meeting:

• Prior art of barriers in the USA ^{[citation needed]}
• We need to find where the traffic problem originates
• We need to base our results on reality
• The problem can be reduced to an optimization/resource allocation problem
• We also need to be aware of constraints and need to communicate them effectively throughout the group
• What can we give our users?

Progression

We need to have the preliminary research done by next week.

• Find sources for our datasets
• Find sources for a simple car driving simulation and or do research to driving habits on the highway
• Some of the planning is reshuffled to accommodate for the deadline given in the meeting

Division of tasks

• Jur: Determine and or look for location and datasets
• Thom: Refine the stakeholders
• Jannes: Find and consider the different dynamic lane systems
• Yannick: Do research with regard to driving habits on highways
• Tom: Lay the groundwork for our mathematical models

Evaluation

Thom has to find better meeting rooms for our next meetings.

Thom closes the meeting at 11:53

013-05-2019

Present during meeting:

• Jannes van Poppelen
• Thom Smits
• Tom Vredenbregt
• Jur Kappé

Absent during meeting:

• Yannick de Jong

Chairman: Thom Smits Secretary: Tom Vredenbregt

The meeting is opened at 11:13 by Thom.

Accepting agenda and Minutes

Jannes and Tom point out a few spelling mistakes on the agenda. After this correction, the agenda and minutes are accepted by the team.

Evaluation tutor meeting

• We think too technically regarding the problem
• Insights from other studies might be beneficial
• Specifics regarding the law might be an issue

Conclusion tutor meeting

• We have to contact companies and stakeholders.
• More stakeholders need to be defined.
• Other than speeding limits and sound pollution, there are not many law-related issues that would cause problems.
• Safety, however, is an issue (trucks that drift to the other side of the road).

Questions/ Comments

Thom: Do we want an extra meeting? (In regard to the perceived progression of the project). Conclusie: From this week on, we will have an extra meeting on Friday after Thermodynamics during lunch.

Evaluatie of task

Thom: stakeholders have been defined, more to be defined now. Jur: databases have been found, mail has been sent, program unresponding, unfortunately. Jannes: Concepts to improve traffic flow (concrete blocks/ flexible lines). Tom: Start of the model.

Decision of which solution

• With road lights have to take constraits into account, porbably expensive
• Little roadblock moving car is a cool solution (look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAGqOfDANM), construct this but faster.
• Do research on this machine, how does it work in detail?
• Carpool is a solution but only really works during rush hour.
• Boom Barriers is also a solution but not as "smart" as the machine.

Status Investigation

• No data acquired as of yet.
• Stakeholders not all been found.
• Yannick’s data brought in on Friday.

Define tasks for upcoming week

• Jur will find data.
• Thom will define stakeholders.
• Thom will contact stakeholders (Comes later).
• Friday a specific road will be chosen based on data from Jur.
• Thom and Jannes look at inner workings of the roadblock moving machine.
• Tom looks at Yannick's previous assignment.
• Yannick's undivided attention will be focused on simulations and programming.

Evaluation

Jannes looked at other wiki’s: we still have to summarize articles

The meeting is closed at 11:53