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Five (or Six) Team Labs will be conducted in the second half of the
semester. The team labs for the Spring 2007 semester were:
Team Lab 1: Open Lab
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Test various sensors & actuators
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Develop the drivers/interface for a specific device
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Build your own Proof of Concept (PoC) system using
various sensors and actuators & pitch it to the class
Team Lab 2: Camera Control Lab
Team Lab 3: Automatic Test Station Lab
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Develop an Automated Test Station (ATS) to
characterize amplifiers
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The ATS communicates over GPIB with a Power Supply,
Function Generator & Digital Multimeter
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The amplifiers are identified by barcodes & so the
system uses a bar code scanner
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Perform testing (for functionality and gain) &
characterization (for cut-off frequency) on the amplifiers
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The information about the amplifiers should be
stored in a Datalog file & another program to retrieve the data
should be developed
Team Lab 4: cRIO based Stepper Motor
Control Lab
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cRIO based system to control the position of a
stepper motor
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A Laser pointer is mounted on the stepper motor
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There is a disk with four light sensors. When a
flashlight is directed at this disk, the cRIO controller should
reposition the stepper motor and shoot the Laser back at the
flashlight
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Gaining experience working with computers of other
form factors & FPGA based controllers is the ultimate objective
Team Lab 5: PDA based Personal Area
Network (PAN) for Telemedicine / Advanced Healthcare
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A PDA which accumulates information from various
health monitors & displays it on the screen. PDA also displays
basic patient & Doctor information (Name, Sex, Notes, etc.)
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A pulse oximeter that transmits information to
the PDA (Bluetooth)
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A Weighing Scale and Blood Pressure monitor that
connect to a laptop which transmits info to the PDA over
Bluetooth
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The PDA transmits this data to the Central Station
(same laptop) over a Wi-Fi link (ad-hoc network with TCP/IP)
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RFID scanner(s) track patients inside the hospital &
are connected to the Central Station
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