- Jeff presented slides on the orange kayak
- will focus on bow separation
- second priority will be to detect a shoal or pier-like structure
- sensors located at max beam
- try to detect presence of a large structure as we drive past
- do these either at the pool or the Reservoir
- Dilip found contacts for requesting pool access
- Dilip will call them this week to see if we can use the pool
- if we do trials at sea, focus on maneuvers in a current field
- main task right now is to decide on sensors and get them ordered
- two options--surface mount and interior flush mount
- discussed a number of surface mount and flush mount sensors
- amplified sensors might be good outside of bow where sensors will be sparse so that they are amplified close to the sensor
- discussed installing a panel of sensors and how difficult it would be to repair holes in the hull
- buy a second hull and use as a second skin for the panel?
- fiber glass a false hull using the hull as a male mold, which would serve as the panel?
- should we contact Joe for advice about cutting holes in the kayak?
- need to get sensors that will arrive by June
- 12 weeks lead time is too long!!!
- Jeff will talk to sensor manufacturers about this
- Chee Wee
- waiting for sensor strip to come in tomorrow
- dynamic testing
- still trying to acquire a piece of equipment for oscillating dynamic testing
- Pablo
- everything ordered for first whisker sensor
- will arrive in 2 weeks
- working on modeling
- to finalize dimensions
- For next week
- finalized decisions on kayak sensors
- update on whisker project
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