01.23.2009
- Topics
- Mapping Meeting
- Justin is free Mon, Tues, Thurs nights
- What works for you?
- Monday @ 6:30pm this week
- Colony Website - http://www.robotcolony.org
- Currently redirects to main trac page
- This is the colony page on the public site: http://www.roboticsclub.org/Colony
- Can we port over the pages from the old public site to drupal? - Rich
- Deliverables (w/ quantifiable goals)
- Mapping
- Reliability
- Colony Logo
- Mapping Meeting
- Status Updates
- Simulator - Wednesday 5:00pm
- Backend / IPC - David, Brad, Andrew
- Working on defining core structures and memory sharing/communication between program parts
- GUI - Brian
- Started working on it
- Sensors / Actuators - Rich, Bradley, Nico
- Motors
- Rangefinders
- Backend / IPC - David, Brad, Andrew
- Autonomous Recharging - Tuesday 6:30pm
- Charge Bays - Evan, Tim, Nolan, Abhinav, Emily
- Couldn't restore I2C code to pre-break status
- Ported dragonfly I2C code to charge bay library so it will stay organized this time
- Tested?
- TODO: Scheduling
- Charge Bays - Evan, Tim, Nolan, Abhinav, Emily
- Diagnostic Station - Wednesday 6:30pm - Jimmy, John, Megan
- Brainstormed with Austin and Brad; results posted on the Trac page
- Need feedback! Looking to hammer these into tickets and get to work.
- Mapping
- Data Gathering - Chris
- Major setbacks: code does not work (current and previous revisions)
- Wireless does not work (between XBee dongle and robot) - broken dongle?
- New XBee's and new dongle boards
- Data Gathering - Chris
- Robot Maintenance - Jimmy
- All robots have a button 1 resistor; broke a surface mount one though :(
- Wired in the homing beacon and charge boards on all robots (except BOT 7)
- Updated robot status page
- To the robot status page
- Simulator - Wednesday 5:00pm