Colony

Colony Project Meeting 4.06

• Austin
  • Charging Station
    • Multiple Bays w/ LBOM
    • New circuit board and connections
    • Indepedent control of each bay's LBOM
    • Need to merge charging station code
• Scheduler
  • Leaving Mode
    • Doesn't fall off the table
    • Stops before the wall
  • BOM Threshold
    • Prevents bad readings (swerving)
  • I2C Homing Code
    • Fixed bug with state transition
    • Works Well
      • Not as good as direct from robot
      • Blinky lights are cool
      • less wires
• Charging Circuit Boards
  • 50% working/not working
    • Salvage the boards from non-working ones
  • New ISP header
  • ISP may not be working
    • Aaron will look into it
  • Unreliable timing
    • Need to fix code
  • Move away from constant charging
    • Control law
  • I2C sped up
• Charging Batteries
  • Charging at 2.2A
    • self-terminating
    • not self-starting
  • 25 minute charge
  • ran for 5 hours
  • TO-DO
    • Robot goes to charging station by itself
• LBOM
  • Too dim o Needs less resistance
• ColoNet
  • Fixed server bugs
  • Client work
  • Can't join token ring yet
    • Kills ring when trying to talk
  • Packet Sniffer
  • Needs a wiki page
• XBee research
  • Old firmware loaded
  • Want to update firmware via X-CTU
    • Unsuccessful
• Printed out XBee documentation
  • In one of the cubbies
• Lemmings
  • Strange bug o Motors interfere with wireless
    • Only occurs when running motors too fast
  • Probably noise
  • Try EMF/noise reduction on motors
• RBOM
  • Talked to Sullivan
  • Try to mimic reference circuit
  • Use sine waves
  • Spice simulation
  • Get schematics from other research
• Talk at GDRS (robot software company, not CMU)
  • Need cool demos
    • Lemmings + Cooperative
    • ColoNet remote control
  • Need demos to be robust (works first time)
• Roboclub Open House
  • Friday of Carnival
  • Colony is usually the best
  • Need demos
• Work Meetings
  • Start earlier
  • Get more done
• Order more batteries
  TO DO LIST

• Scheduler Demo
  • Felix and Chris
• Merge Charging Station code
  • Austin, Chris, James
• Cooperative on Dragonflies
  • James
• LBOM brightness
  • Aaron
• ISP
  • Aaron and Bradford Master Neuman
• More Robots
  • Duncan, Aneeb
• Charging Station and Contacts
  • Austin, Feng, Ben
• I2C Tiny Code - Multi-Master?
  • Suresh, Kwoo
• ColoNet Documentation
  • Eugene
• ColoNet Robust Remote Control
  • Eugene, Jason
• XBee Firmware Update
  • Eugene, Brian, Jason
• Motor Noise/EMF Reduction
  • Justin, Aaron
• RBOM
  • Cornell, Pras, James
• Charging Batteries
  • Bradford
• Joke
  • Q: HOW MANY HAIR STYLISTS DOES IT TAKE TO SEPECITICIATOLIOSCAPOTOMISE A BLACKJACK'S SPOON-LIKE BEYODLE?