Goals
- Build an integrated team (SCI-Arc + Caltech) that can win the 2011 Solar Decathlon
- Complete the design development phase of the Solar Decathlon competition and submit design documents on time
- Evaluate and explore options for providing some technology sizzle in our design
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Technical Challenges
- Bring 20-30 new Caltech students from diverse backgrounds and skill levels up to speed quickly
- Integration of SCI-Arc and Caltech activities (people, goals, schedule, deliverables)
- Some existing baseline designs are note very complete; need more work and re-validation
- Some subsystems have no baseline design
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Objectives
- Assign students to subsystems and teams, with linkages between teams with overlapping functionality or interfaces
- For subsystems with existing baseline designs:
- Revalidate the baseline design computations and verify that baseline can achieve maximum points for relevant competition(s)
- Communicate and agree on specifications and choices with EST and SCI-Arc teams
- Perform model-based analysis of system performance in a form that can be used for trade-off studies
- Document the baseline design in a manner that is compatible with design development phase deliverable
- Evaluate technology options that can be incorporated into our design and perform cost analysis for each
- For subsystems without existing baseline designs:
- Analyze options design with performance, cost, electrical load, thermal load estimates
- Establish a baseline design that can achieve maximum points for relevant competition(s), in agreement with EST and SCI-Arc teams
- Document the baseline design in a manner that is compatible with design development phase deliverable
- Develop and maintain system-level cost and energy budgets and use these to verify ability to maximize points on engineering-driven competitions
- Provide a design capable of full capability (max points) with net-zero energy consumption for 95th percentile day
- Provide a design capable of 90% max points on worst case day (over last 20 years)
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Approach
- Stick to summer 2010 system architecture decisions; avoid re-inventing the wheel
- Hold off on alterations to the baseline until we have a fully analyzed, documented and costed baseline
- Schedule planning event with Caltech + SCI-Arc to help people meet each other and align goals, milestones and schedule
- Make use of the project wiki as a mechanism to document and enhance team communication
- Identify individual students who will be responsible for insuring good cross-project integration between appropriate groups
- Develop analytical or computational models demonstrating that specifications can be met
- Milestones
- 13 Oct: each subsystem team knows what SD rules apply to their subsystem + understand existing baseline design
- 27 Oct: (re-) validated baseline design computations for each subsystem; shared decision making between SCI-Arc and Caltech
- 10 Nov: rigorously analyzed and documented baseline designs complete for all subsystems
- 23 Nov: design development documentation complete and delivered to DOE
- 10 Dec: final reports for each student due, with complete subsystem documentation available on project wiki
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