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2. Statistical Golf Analyzer
Senior Design May07-07
Team
Brian Cain Cpr E/CS
Scott Coleman Cpr E
Josh Roberts Cpr E
Shannon Schulz EE
Client
John Whitmer
Faculty Advisors
Professor Morris Chang
Professor Tien Nguyen
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3. Statistical Golf Analyzer
Today’s Presentation
- Introductory Materials
- Project Activity
- Resources and Schedules
- Closing Summary
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Terms
-NMEA 0183 protocol
National Marine Electronics Association protocol for communication between a GPS receiver and other devices
-PDA
Personal digital assistant, a handheld computer
-GPS
Global positioning system
-Contact
Relative position of the club face to the ball upon striking
-Flight
Trajectory of the club after contact with the ball
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Acknowledgments
Jack Whitmer- Input to the implementation of device and the purchase of the PDA and GPS units
Morris Chang & Tien Nguyen- Ideas for modern techniques to practice
Dr. Smith – Commitment to seeing success of team, testing/debugging GPS
USGlobalSat- GPS receiver discount
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Problem Statement
1. Keep track of golf shots and their characteristics
2. Keep a scorecard
3. Display charts of different statistics and
images of hole
- PDA application
- Web application
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Operating Environment
Temperature range: F
Dirt/dust
Carrying/dropping on hard terrain
Occasional cloudy conditions
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Intended Users
Any golfer who wants to improve his or her game
- Varying skill levels
- Course professionals/instructors
- Team coaches
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Intended Uses
Record and analyze statistics of a golf game shot by shot
-distance
-flight quality
-contact quality
-conditions of shot
Electronic score card
View course information
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Assumptions
User has basic understanding of PDA use
User has web access
Only one instance of program running at a time
One golfer using the program at a time
Golfer has default set of clubs
PDA can operate independently on full power for 2 hours
(to accommodate a full round of golf)
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Limitations
Program must be able to run on the free memory of the PDA
Web application requires internet connection
The GPS can only obtain data with accuracy within 5 meters
The system will be developed with the Microsoft Windows Pocket PC (Mobile 5.0) Operation System
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Original Expected End Product
and Deliverables
User manual
PDA application
Web Application
Project Documentation
Dell Axim X51
USGlobalSat
CF GPS Receiver
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Completed Expected End Product
and Deliverables
User manual
PDA application
Project Documentation
Dell Axim X51
USGlobalSat
CF GPS Receiver
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Present Accomplishments
Project Documentation (Project Plan, Poster, User manual)
Implemented and tested PDA GUI
Implemented and tested core PDA application
Implemented GPS/PDA interface
Implemented and tested GPS engine
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Project Definition Activities
Considerations
- PC application vs. web application
- PDA/GPS hardware
- PDA application design language
- C++
- Java
- C#
- GPS vs. manual (guessing) distances
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Research Activities
Dr. Tien – C#
Internet
- NMEA protocol
- Open-source code/copyright issues
- Hardware selections
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Design Activities
Data Structure Diagram
Module Breakdown
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Design Activities
PDA Flow Chart – Start Program
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Design Activities
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PDA Flow Chart – Main Loop

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Implementation Activities
Microsoft Visual Studio NET Development Platform
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Testing Activities
GPS
- accurate measurement of GPS location
- interface with PDA Application
PDA
- upload course statistics to the server from the PDA
- display the stored data into graphs and charts.
- alpha testing (requirements verification)
- beta testing (customer use and feedback)
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Testing Activities
PDA – csUnit
Brian developed most
core code
-Josh wrote tests
based on
documentation
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Testing Activities
GPS
Latitude
Longitude
Distances ft - -1
186 22
123
132
137
127
117
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Testing Activities
Systems tests
- GPS / PDA Interface
- PDA screenflow
- PDA output
Client changes –
Output to an Excel readable file
Points of Interest
Option for manual distance
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Personal Hours (est.)
Personnel
Problem Definition
Technology Considerations
Design
Prototype Impleme-ntation
Testing
Docume-ntation
Demonst-ration
Project Reporting
Totals
Brian
Cain 11 21 28 56 13 14 12 25
180
Scott
Coleman 23 20 60 22
184
Josh
Roberts 10 26 54 19
177
Shannon
Schulz 9 24 45 7 18 16 30
159
Total 42 74 98
215 41 67
103
700
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Personal Hours (actual)
Personnel
Problem Definition
Technology Considerations
Design
Prototype Impleme-ntation
Testing
Docume-ntation
Demonst-ration
Project Reporting
(meetings)
Totals
Brian
Cain 11 21 28 58 31 12 32
204
Scott
Coleman 23 20 65 17 16 30
195
Josh
Roberts 10 26 38 47 13 41
205
Shannon
Schulz 9 24 22 43
156
Total 42 74 98
183
108 67
146
760
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Financial Requirements
Item
W/O Labor
With Labor
Project Poster
$25.00
$70.00
PDA
$300
GPS receiver
$80
$130
Subtotal
$405
$500
Labor at $10/hr
Brian Cain
$2040
Scott Coleman
$1950
Josh Roberts
$2050
Shannon Schulz
$1560
w/o Labor
w/ Labor
Subtotal $0
$7600
Total
$405
$8100
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Schedule (est)
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Schedule (actual)
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Project Evaluation
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Recommendation for additional work
Continuation is encouraged
Number of statistics possibilities is more extensive
PDA application
- Ability to “create-a-course”
- Edit past shot information
Web application
- Multiple course files
- Customizable graphs
- User login
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Lessons learned
Test early and often
Communication is extremely important, among entire team
Expect delays in acquisition of orders/requests
Implement from simple to complex and test as you go
Technical Knowledge
- C#, PHP programming, NMEA protocol
Project Management skills
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Risks and Risk management
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Closing Summary
The Golf Statistical Analyzer is the future in golf game improvement. Since it’s a software program running on a PDA, golfers can literally collect all of their golf statistics in the palm of their hands. The GPS attachment allows for more accurate club distance, eliminating the errors created by guessing. A user friendly interface allows for quick and easy data entry while approaching the next shot. After the round the golfer can load the new statistics into Excel and view charts and graphs that show individual club, hole, and course statistics to let them know where they need to improve.
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Questions?
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