AMRDEC Test Facility Improvement Project Mid-Term Design Review

Project Introduction Team Members Bill Whiteley Jonathan Ahlbin Jostin Crass Ryan Davis Sponsor: Propulsion and Structures Directorate at Redstone Arsenal Jay Lilley – Program Director George Arkoosh – Main Contact

Project Focus Two Pronged Approach Improve the Propulsion and Structures Testing Facility's Data Capture and Data Management Capabilities Two Pronged Approach Improve video & audio data collection Improve the management of collected test data

Hardware Requirements Capture 4 cameras & 4 audio channels simultaneously At resolutions of 640x480 At 30FPS Export captured data to AVI encoded format Instant replaying of test

Primary A/V Collection Plan Arnold’s Air Force Base Currently employing a multiple DVR system to capture A/V data from tests Contacted Jim Nichols Works at Arnold’s Video Collection Center and is a PhD student at Vandy Willing to work with us to model a system that meets our needs Meeting scheduled for next week

Secondary A/V Collection Plan Pelco DX8000 Addressed George’s Concerns with the system during conference call His Concerns are: Resolution/Frame Rate Proprietary Video format Uncompressed AVI Exporting Feature Recovery Disks Hard Drive Space Called Technical Support Two Boxes must be used to achieve desired frame rate and resolution

Hardware Status Bailment Agreement Finished Selection of primary or secondary video capture plan Pending Application Server Finished and Online

Test Data Management Data Storage System Currently No organized system Data is usually kept by the engineers who conduct the test or the data resides with the person responsible for analyzing the data DV tapes and Data Files (Video and ASCII) are stored various places and with various people Consequences of Current System Lost data Misplaced data Improperly labeled or cataloged data

Software Requirements The new Data Management System has the following requirements The system must be able to store digital test data files Users must be able to retrieve data from a thin client program (browser) connected to the application server Users must be able to search or browse through previously entered test cases to find specific test data The system must programmatically enforce a standard operation procedure The interface to the system must be intuitive and simple

The Venom System Vanderbilt Electronic Networked Object Management System Intranet application hosted on MS IIS Built on the Active Server Pages platform Supported by MS SQL Server 2003 database Written in VB Script, JavaScript, HTML and SQL

Technology Review Application Technology ASP – Active Server Pages Platform that runs inside MS Internet Information Service (IIS) An ASP file has the file extension ".asp" An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server Since ASP files are returned as plain HTML, they can be viewed in any browser Provides security since your ASP code can not be viewed from the browser

Technology Review Database Technology MS SQL Server 2000 Microsoft technology Enterprise data management platform Up to 32 Processors and up to 64 GB of Memory SQL Server Agent runs scheduled tasks Full-Text searching capabilities Automated data backup capabilities

The Venom System Core Functionality Open a new test case in the Venom System Describe the test case using common test parameters Test Name Requestor Date of Test Type Of Test Hardware Manufacturer Upload generated test data to the test case Search or browse for previously entered tests Download test data from the test cases

Venom Environment

Application Model Centralized Processing Utilizes a Global Namespace A single file handles all application state transitions Two Stage Processing Pre-Processing Stage – Takes action on user input and handles most database access, file upload / processing Post-Processing Stage – Handles all of the page creation responsibilities Facilitates easy extension of the application Increases security because it hides asp file information

Post-Processing -Page Creation Processing Algorithm default.asp Final State Current State default.asp Pre-Processing - Database Access - Handle User Actions File Transfers - Object Creation Post-Processing -Page Creation -Display Results

Data Structure – Test Case

Data Structure - Application

Pre-Test Project Pretest: All information necessary to organize and perform a test Goal: Gather information on pre-test procedures Next Semester Goal: Design a program to perform and organize all pre-test procedures

Pre-Test Progress Received a word document outlining nine general test categories Contacted advisor via e-mail to continue to think about pre-test information Future: Meeting advisor in Huntsville to gather all information regarding the pre-test

Project Schedule

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