CSE 432 Customer Project Proposal

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CSE 432Customer Project Proposal

• A CAD program for
• designing and analyzing
• dog agility tracks

Author Stephen M. Lee-Urban Presented January
29th, 2004
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Overview of Client (1/2)

• Wishes to become a judge in dog agility
  competitions
• As judge, would have to design courses
• Wants a CAD program to aid in design /
  visualization / rating of courses
• World class expert in field
• Her and her Old English Sheepdog have more
  agility titles than any other in the world
• Located near Easton

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Overview of Client (2/2)

• Tom Morrisette
• Computer professional for 35 years
• Object oriented expert for nearly 15 years
• Works in Lehighs math department (accessible)
• Both clients are
• Enthusiastic about the project
• Willing to participate in requirement
  specification meetings
• Able to give excellent advice on their fields of
  expertise

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Real World Specifics

• Jumps, Tunnels, etc.
• Some props are convenient to change
• Jumps can be made higher/lower, etc.
• Fits in 100' x 100' square
• Consecutive obstacles must be separated by 15'
• The path may cross itself
• Three different levels of courses
• Beginner, intermediate, advanced
• Unclear as to algorithm for rating

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Real World Conventions

• At an event, all 3 difficulty levels compete
• Courses typically made from same equipment
• Course ideally changed from one levels setup to
  anothers in a few minutes
• Positions/configurations of equipment in course
  should be similar to each of other two courses

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Program Features

• Helps place equipment on course
• User places equipment via virtual world, dragging
  onto a grid, etc.
• View of course is changeable (view it from
  different directions)
• Rates course difficulty
• Elaborates on how rating was generated
• Could be a step towards auto-course generation
• Compares courses
• Calculates how easily they can be transformed
  into each other
• Families of courses ideally share same equipment

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More Features

• Generate instructions explaining course traversal
• Generate checklist-oriented instructions for
  setting up the course involving
• Precise placement (location and angles) and
  adjustments (e.g., heights of jumps) for all of
  the equipment
• Methods for assembling each course from scratch
• Methods for assembling each course from other two
  courses in same family (beginner, intermediate,
  advanced) 

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Client Hopes For

• One of two things
• A minimal, but quite helpful software system
• A document containing a thorough analysis and
  design of a more full-fledged system
• For purposes of the assignment, perhaps a
  combination of both is possible