Status Updates: 03/19/10¶
Weeks of 03/12/10 - 03/19/10
- SURG Grant - DUE ON WEDNESDAY
- Finalize sections
- George likes lines vs. grid (filling in high resolution grid has been done)
- Graph offers compact representation of environment
- Difficult to model switching lanes
- Graphs would be good for getting from Point A to Point B
- Not necessarily mapping, but a priori knowledge
- Stay tuned for URO email, accept the project
- SURG - Formation Control - Nico, Steve, Alex, Joel, Echo
- Modularize formations
- Get to a circle
- Equal spacing on circle
- Move circle
- Executive decision on middle robot spacing
- Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Chris, Evan, Ben W, Abe
- Testing progress
- starts and stops - figure out why it stops
- debugging send and receive
- Filter Design - Emily, Austin
- Timer Manager - Austin, Brad
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- Find mean of the means to determine if we can improve accuracy
- currently, +- 2cm on the average and a spread of +- 2cm around the average (-> +-4cm inaccuracy band)
- constant offset to make the colony consistent
- line the means up on one consistent distance (not across different distances)
- linear function might be necessary (also, more data to send and more computations per reading)
- also, think about maintenance
- is our data actually representative?
- drift over time?
- diagnostic station to help automate data collection
- Rangefinders - Austin
- IR 5 on Bot 4
- IR 4 on Bot 5
- Demo Folder - Evan
- can now run 'make demo' from within the trunk if you have subversion installed
- File structure
- have all library source files and necessary source files for that demo? <--- this one
- have library archives and necessary source files?
- just the compiled hex?
- Hunter-Prey
- Smart Run Around
- Joystick
- Intro Dances
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