MeetingMinutes20120326¶
Subgroup Updates¶
Warehouse Behavior - Priya¶
- Starting testing Scheduler
- Making things ROS compatible
Mechanical - John¶
Forklift - Julian¶
Electrical Progress- Assembled board for the first time
- Fried two AVR's :(
- Assembled second board.
- I2C works with a small bug.
- Motor control on avr works.
- Reading forklift height works
- Pretty much done with solidworks design!
- Parts will be ordered this week
- Manufacturing and Assembly should begin next week (unless an experienced mechanist can help out this week)
New Meeting Time Again?
Simulator (and ROS) - Alex¶
- Good progress!
- Loaded two maps: one for texture and one for lines. Can display both.
- Added menus
- GUI about, close, clear map, and change view
- Added new top-down version of scout
- Coming soon
- Linefollowing
- Better Teleop
- Inter-robot communication
- Demo if you want it
Board - Abe¶
- Discussed Zigbee software stack as it relates to hardware configuration
- Not going to make any hardware changes related to this
- Getting ready to send out board order
- Waiting for feedback from Kevin
- Probably won't wait any longer than it takes us to get other stuff ready
- Going to abandon hot power supply switching, as its utility is negligible in this iteration
- Just need to look at the Gerber files and make sure the fonts aren't illegible like on the power test board
- Waiting for feedback from Kevin
Low-level Software - Ben¶
- Waiting on Dan, Azl, Prasanth for SW
- Deciding between BitCloud and lower level alternative for WL
- Tom is working on RosSerial
Other Updates¶
- Start getting pictures and videos for SURG!
- Do it while its still working =O
- Pictures of forklift assembly
- Video of simulator running behaviours
- Video of wireless communication
Attended by: John, Abe, Julian, Misty, Leon, Tim, Ben, Dan, Alex, Tom, Lambda, Priya, James
Emails from:
Late: Lalitha, Jeff,