P08005: ARC Communication Board Revision

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Project Overview

The ARC of Monroe County has requested a communication board for one of its consumers who has speech and spelling capabilities. This would replace a paper-based communication book.

A prototype solution was implemented during the 2006/2007 academic year that demonstrated the fundamental operation of a battery powered, touch screen, LCD display based device, using a standard PC/104 computing platform. It ran a Linux operating system that was placed in a slightly modified standard flat-panel enclosure, along with a suggested custom enclosure design.

Based on feedback from the customer, the prototype needs to be refined to more closely meet the actual customer requirements in terms of size, weight, durability and operational characteristics. In short, the computing platform and software solutions need to be reconsidered so as to more closely match the necessary requirements of the customer. The overall enclosure needs to be reconsidered and actually implemented so that the unit can be more thoroughly evaluated by the end users.

Administrative Information

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. BES-0527358. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Project Name: ARC Communicatio board revision
Project Number: P08005
Project Family: Assistive Devices
Track: Assistive Devices/Bioengineering
Start Term: 2007-2
End Term: 2007-3
Faculty Guide: Dr. Daniel Phillips (EE)
Faculty Consultant: Dr. Elizabeth DeBartolo (ME)
Faculty Consultant: Dr. Stan Rickel (ID)
Primary Customer: Lisa Drewski (l_drewski@arcmonroe.org)
Customer contact information: ARC Monroe, Southwest
Staffing

Team Member	Discipline	Role	Subsystems	email address
Cortney Ross	ME	Project Manager	Internal & External LCD Enclosure	cxr2863@rit.edu
Kirk Marquard	ME	Project Supporter	Mechanical Arm & Speaker Components	kem0717@rit.edu
Achilleas Tziazas	CE	Project Supporter	Computer & LCD Components	atziazas@gmail.com
Amy Koster	ID	Project Supporter	GUI & Case Design	amk4349@rit.edu
Rachel Lapkawski	ID	Project Supporter	GUI & Case Design	r.lapkowski@gmail.com
Elizabeth DeBartolo	ME	Guide	Entire System	eademe@rit.edu
Daniel Phillips	EE	Consultant	Entire System	dbpeee@rit.edu

Design Project Management Planning

Mission Statement

Staffing Requirements

Customer Constraints

Intellectual Property Considerations

Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure

Team Values and Norms

Grading and Assessment Scheme

Required Resources

Concept Level Project Plan

Preliminary Project Plan

Final Project Plan

Concept Development

Identify Customer Needs

Establish Target Specifications

Generate Product Concepts

Select Product Concept(s)

Test Product Concept(s)

Set Final Specifications

Team Documents

Last year's project information can be found at: P07001 Home page

SD1 Workshop Documents

Team Organization Chart

Team Subsystem Roles And Responsibilities

1-Page Project Summary

Customer Needs (Hierarchy)

Metrics & Specifications

System Level Design

Preliminary Bill Of Materials

Customer Needs And Engineering Specification Achievements

Risk Asessment (High Technology)

Risk, Test and Mitigation Asessment

Preliminary Test Plan

11-Week Project Plan MSDII

Revised Set Of Objectives Proceeding Into MSDII

Published Documents

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Concept Design Review Documents (SD I)

Detailed Design Review Documents (SD I)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD I)

Technical Conference Publication (SD II)

Poster Publication (SD II)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD II)

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