Kick-off meeting

EL2421, Automatic Control, Project Course

Course information

Course period: Mon 3 Nov - Mon 19 Jan

w1-w7 project work

w8-w9 holidays/own work

w10 re-exams/own work

w11 final presentation and report

15 credits = full time work, 40 h/week

Learning outcomes

After the course the student should be able to:• Plan and execute a complex project in a group• Design and implement a control system that meets given

specifications• Communicate the results in written reports and oral

presentations

Main task

Develop an advanced control system for a laboratory process

Project planning and management

Requirement specification

Modeling and system identification

Control design and analysis

Verification in simulation

Implementation in real-time systems

Validation and testing

Documentation and reporting

Course structure

• Independent project work is tha main activity• A few mandatory workshops/tutorials• Weekly status meetings

Weekly meetings

• At least one teacher representative present• You lead the meetings, all students must lead at least one

meeting• Agenda (structure) and minutes (documentation)

• updated project plan • status updates • plan for coming week• deviations/problems

Reports

• Requirement specification, based on project description and your own brainstorming, to be agreed upon between project group and ”client”, first draft 10 Nov.

• Project plan, (5-10 pages): brief overview of the project, organization of work, definition of milestones and deliverables, time plan, risk analysis. First draft 10 Nov, updated plan every week.

• Project report, max 12 pages double column. Layout 18 Dec, first submission 12 Jan, final submission 16 Jan. Feedback will be given the following work day.

• Self-evaluation, 1 page, 19 Jan.

Presentations

Each project member must take active part in at least one of the following presentations:• Half-time review, 1 Dec: project description and

preliminary results.• Final presentation and demonstration, 16 Jan: project

description and final results

Documentation

• Well-organized and well-documented source codeSomeone outside the project should be able to re-create your solution from the documentation

• Material for project description on http://sml.ee.kth.se• Short texts• Pictures and images• Movie (for example from final presentation and demo)

• Deadline 17 Jan, 12:00

Lectures and tutorials (mandatory)

3 nov, 10-12: Project management/SCRUM, Joakim Lilliesköld

5 nov, 8.30-12.30: LabView introduction, Payman Tehrani, (Kista)

10 nov (prel): Systems engineering, John Baras

13 nov, 14-16: Real time testing with xPC target, Simon Eriksson, (Kista)

18 nov (prel): Systems engineering, John Baras

25 nov, 10-12: Follow up on SCRUM, Joakim Lilliesköld

Examination

Individual grade: pass/fail

Continuous examination

(Meetings, reports, presentations)

Self-evaluation – 1 page• Reflect on your own work in relation to the course goals• Describe your contribution to the project• Give feedback on two students’ self-evaluations

examination in progress

Examination

To pass the course the student must have:• Attended the tutorials• Participated actively in the weekly meetings• Shown ability and willingness to work in a group• Shown ability to analyze, structure and solve (sub-) problems within the project• Contributed significantly to the reports and documentation• Contributed to that the final design should fulfill the requirements • Participated in an oral presentation or the demonstration• Been approved on the written homework excersice• Written a self-evaluation with respect to the learning outcome

Team building

You will collaborate with vehicle dynamics project group. You must schedule meetings with them.

You must assign individual roles and responsibilities. In particular you should have a project leader. Deadline 5 Nov.

Team building activity

• Good initial conditions for project work• Off campus, preferably during first week• Activity for everyone (good idea to invite VehDyn group)• Documentation – picture/image/recording/painting/…

The project

Last year’s project

http://www.kth.se/ees/forskning/strategiska-forskningsomraden/intelligenta-transportsystem/smart-mobility-lab/projects/ac-project-course

This year’s project

http://www.kth.se/ees/forskning/strategiska-forskningsomraden/intelligenta-transportsystem/smart-mobility-lab/projects/summer-projects/research-concept-vehicle-automatic-parking-1.509652