Status Updates: 10/23/09¶
Weeks of 10/10/09 - 10/23/09
- Introductory Lab Demo - Hunter-Prey
- New member progress?
- Arena size TBD
- Finding problems with robots, need to update wiki (new members should get access)
- Referee Bot - Brad
- Reference Robot - Abe, Nico
- New member progress?
- ADC Prescalar Testing - Evan
- Check if repeated calling for extended period of time overheats ADC over different pre-scalars
- Test ADC over range of input values over different pre-scalars
- Remove Analog Loop - James, Evan
- Investigate if we still need Analog loop
- Use bitmask to only initialize ports being used
- Use timer to schedule analog readings (Colony Task Scheduler)
- Need defined period for filtering
- Filtering for BOM?
- Need to investigate performance of BOM w/ and w/o filtering
- Will bom_getmax() work differently?
- Bot 10 BOM - Austin, Evan
- De-solder resistors, see if it still shorts
- De-solder receivers and see if it still shorts
- Filter (averaging, exponential averaging, butterworth, ideal low-pass) - Emily, John
- Using MATLAB to analyze the various filters
- Freq Responses
- Impulse Responses
- Truncated Impulse Responses
- Output Signals from Truncated Impulse Responses
- Using MATLAB to analyze the various filters
- Init Function Clean-up - Brad
- Init and library functions return error codes
- Checks multiple inits, dependencies
- RAM space issues - David
- .data and .bss must add up to be less than 4096 (4KB)
- moved lcd and rangefinder lookup tables to programspace (flash memory)
- this gives us 650 B free space in RAM
- New IR Lookup Table - Dan, Austin
- Working on accuracy of table, conversion to mm
- Formation Control SURG Brainstorming
- Dynamic formations (e.g. splitting formation to go around an obstacle)
- the technical term is flocking
- Resizable circle determined by number of robots, maintain orientation (i.e. know where their sensors are facing)
- Build library for (pairwise) coordination (e.g. orbit)
- Form subgroups and teams (different levels of hierarchies)
- Secret Service / VIP formation, orbiting guards
- Remote control of VIP robot
- Heterogeneous goals (a la naval formations: scout bots, etc...)
- Dynamic formations (e.g. splitting formation to go around an obstacle)
- CFR Seminar - Nora Ayanian
- Check her site for her presentation
- Wiki access and mailing list
- Part Order List
- Rangefinders - Jimmy